Australia To Provide Better Access To Prescription Medicine Information
The Parliamentary Secretary for Health, Mark Butler, today announced that publication of prescription medicine Product Information and Consumer Medicine Information documents has begun on the Therapeutic Goods Administration website.
“Consumers and care givers will be the big winners in this latest reform as they will now have easy access to these documents at a single point and know where to go to find authoritative and reliable information about a prescription medicine that is included on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods,” Mr Butler said.
Starting with over 200 prescribed medicines, others will be added progressively until full coverage is achieved early next year.
Mr Butler said that the TGA is considered one of the top medicine regulators in the world but some of its activities have been criticised as being constrained and lacking transparency.
“With the support of the Rudd Government, the TGA is now actively implementing reform initiatives to enhance the regulatory framework for therapeutic goods,” Mr Butler said.
Along with providing better access to prescription medicine information, the TGA is progressing process reforms which, when implemented, will:
- significantly improve timelines for registration of prescription medicines
- increase the transparency of the regulatory process
“This is an exciting time in the transformation of the TGA and I look forward to industry, health professional and consumer bodies working closely with the TGA and government to advance transparency and accountability,” Mr Butler said.
Product information and Consumer Medicine Information can be found at www.tga.gov.au/meds/picmi.htm
Topics: access, Australia, Governance, health care, Health Care, prescribed medicines, prescription, Prescription Medicine Information, product information, reliable information, Therapeutic Goods Administration
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