NSW Medicines Formulary a finalist in the 2024 NSW Health Awards
23 September 2024
The NSW Medicines Formulary has been nominated as a finalist in the 2024 NSW Health Awards.
The formulary is a finalist for a team award in the Patient safety first category, which acknowledges a commitment to putting patient safety first every day.
In partnership with the NSW Ministry of Health, the Clinical Excellence Commission’s (CEC) formulary team has delivered a statewide rollout of the medicine formulary and associated governance and procurement processes across all public hospitals.
The CEC led an 18-month transition to implement the statewide formulary, affecting over 65,000 clinicians across 200 metropolitan, regional, and rural public hospitals.
“The NSW Medicines Formulary is making the delivery of healthcare safer and more equitable for patients across the state by ensuring consistent access to evidence-based medications,” Adjunct Professor Michael Nicholl, CEC Chief Executive, said.
“It is a fantastic example of clinicians and agencies across the NSW Health system working collaboratively to improve patient safety and sustainability in healthcare delivery.”
NSW Health initiated the reform to improve the use of medicines in public hospitals, ensure equitable access to medicines and consistent treatment across the state, and address procurement challenges.
The resulting NSW Medicines Formulary promotes consistent, efficient healthcare delivery, enabling clinical decisions to inform statewide medicine procurement and saving almost $100 million in the first financial year.
This remarkable success was underpinned by effective collaboration with hospital networks, local health districts, HealthShare NSW and eHealth NSW.
Congratulations to our CEC colleagues and those in partner agencies who worked together to achieve this outstanding result and have been recognised as 2024 NSW Health Awards finalists.
(Left to right: Emma Dawe, Dr Harvey Lander, Professor Jenny Martin and Nina Muscillo).
Clinical Excellence Commission
- Dr Harvey Lander, Director, Systems Improvement
- Prof. Jennifer Martin, Clinical Lead and Chair, NSW Medicines Formulary Committee
- Nina Muscillo, Chief Advisor and Program Lead, Medication Safety, Quality and Therapeutics Optimisation
- Lucy Nair, Principal Lead, Medication Safety and Quality
- Carly Wills, Senior Improvement Lead, Medicines and Therapeutics Optimisation
- Christine Coorey, Improvement Lead, Medicines and Therapeutics Optimisation
- Danica Furtula, Improvement Lead, Medicines and Therapeutics Optimisation
- Dr Josephine Adattini, Improvement Lead, Medicines and Therapeutics Optimisation
- Kate Donaldson, Improvement Lead, Medicines and Therapeutics Optimisation
- Mollie Churton, Improvement Lead, Medicines and Therapeutics Optimisation
- Sankit Lalseta, (former) Improvement Lead, Medicines and Therapeutics Optimisation
- Kate Roper, Senior Improvement Lead, Medicines Valuation
- Bayan Hosseini, Senior Improvement Lead, Medicines Critical Response and Governance
- Loesje Scholz, Improvement Lead, Medicines Valuation
NSW Ministry of Health
- Dr Ian Whyte, Former Chair, NSW Medicines Formulary Committee
- Dr Kerry Chant, Chief Health Officer, Deputy Secretary, Population and Public Health
- Emma Dawe, Manager Priority Projects, Office of the Chief Health Officer
- Christa Lynch, (former) Lead Pharmacist, Priority Projects Unit, Office of the Chief Health Officer
- Dr Anna Calik, (former) Medical Public Health Officer trainee Rosanna Mackinnon, Project Officer, Priority Projects Unit, Office of the Chief Health Officer
- Nicola Moore, Senior Project Officer, Priority Projects Unit, Office of the Chief Health Officer
HealthShare NSW
- Noman Masood, Senior Category Manager
- Susie Giddey, Associate Director, Category Management
eHealth NSW
- Michael Turner, Associate Director, Clinical Solutions Service
- Monica Middleton, Master Drug Catalogue Design Lead
- Jane Tyan, Project Manager, Service Delivery
- Medha Joshi, Business analyst
The NSW Health Awards winners will be announced on October 24.