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The National Prescribing Service (NPS) is an independent organisation aimed at endorsing best practice and quality prescribing. They provide funding to the SouthEast Primary HealthCare Network for a trained services consultant to visit GPs with information on current therapeutic areas of interest. This means that you don’t have to sift through journals and journals of evidence…. it’s been done for you by your peers.
NPS educational visits are one-on-one and take approximately 20-30 minutes. Discussion involves how current evidence on specific therapeutic topics translates into quality prescribing for your patients. Visits qualify for CPD points with the RACGP’s QA&CPD Program and as an activity for the Quality Prescribing Initiative, which is part of the Practice Incentive Program (PIP). To find out how to participate in this initiative, use the checklist on this site.
NPS also provides clinical audits and case studies for GPs throughout the year and publishes a number of Quality Use of Medicines items, including Australian Prescriber, NPS News and RADAR - a quarterly electronic update about new medicines, revised PBS listings and newly published research relevant to primary care.
GPs or practice managers can contact the NPS Primary Care Liaison Officer, Ben Sung, at SouthEast Primary HealthCare Network on 3290 3733 to arrange an educational visit, or for more information about NPS. Latest Visiting Topic – Prevention of Stroke
Stay up to date with the latest information from NPS using their RSS Feed: http://nps.funnelback.com/search/rss.cgi?collection=nps&query=rss+feed