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Commonwealth of Australia
Senator the Hon Grant Tambling
Parliamentary Secretary for Health and Aged Care
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10/12/1999
Why is a policy needed? Medicines - prescription and non-prescription medicines, including complementary healthcare products - have a significant impact on both health and health expenditure. It is therefore essential that Australia has a well-developed, practical national medicines policy to ensure:
Whose policy is it? Coordinated by the Australian Pharmaceutical Advisory Council (APAC), a consultative forum that advises the Commonwealth Government on a wide range of medicines policy issues, the National Medicines Policy reflects the growing emphasis on shared responsibility between governments, healthcare practitioners and educators, consumers, industry and the media. (A list of APAC member organisations is attached.)
Further information:
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