Surely its time the PSA, NPS, PBAC, PHARM, APAC, TGA, APMA, and the government fixed this problem!
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CMIs again Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 08:39:48 +1000 From: Ken Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organisation: Medreach Pty. Ltd. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aaron Hall (PSA Pubic Affairs) said:
Each product's CMI can be found at the National Prescribing Service website: www.nps.org.au
Not true! The NPS web site says: "In Australia there is no single electronic set of all CMI available. Our website service has many CMI leaflets in PDF format for you to view and print." One could ask why (in 2006) there is still no up-to-date Australian national electronic repository of CMI (or PI)? The end result of this government (&/or TGA) ineptitude is that different software packages (GP & pharmacist) and different web sites contain different sets of CMI, that are not complete and not always up-to-date. For example: The DoHA web site tells you what CMI is but not where to get it! http://www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/publishing.nsf/Content/nmp-pdf-cmi-cnt.htm The Australian government's HealthInsite web site links to MIMS myDr web site which states it has 1800 CMIs available on-line: http://www.healthinsite.gov.au/topics/Medicines The Victorian government's Better Health Channel Medicines Guide says it contains over 750 Consumer Medicine Information sheets. http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcsite.nsf/pages/bhc_medicinesguide?opendocument The RACGP Web site states it holds CMI and PI information developed by a limited range of pharmaceutical manufactures and therefore does not cover all drugs. http://www.racgp.org.au/library/medicines/ The Australian Prescription Products Guide notes that it includes more than 3,900 prescription and non-prescription (PIs) and nearly 2000 CMIs. However, the CMIs in the APPG are only available to people who pay $200 per annum subscription. http://www.appco.com.au/appguide/browse.asp?t=cmi At least, the NPS offers to track down CMIs not on their web site: http://www.nps.org.au/site.php?content=/resources/content/cmi_search.php Meanwhile, in New Zealand, Medsafe DO provide a single national repository of CMI. Perhaps they can offer to make this available to the TGA as part of the TransTasman harmonisation! http://www.medsafe.govt.nz/Consumers/cmi/cmiform.asp Cheers Ken -- Dr. Ken Harvey Adjunct Senior Research Fellow School of Public Health, La Trobe University http://www.medreach.com.au VOIP: +61 (03) 9029 0634; Mobile +61 (04) 1918 1910 _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
