About Us
NSW TAG is an independent, not-for-profit association. Our members are clinical pharmacologists, pharmacists and other clinicians from the teaching hospitals of NSW and affiliated academic units.
Our goal is:
- To promote quality use of medicines by sharing unbiased, evidence-based information about drug therapy
Our objectives are:
- To investigate and evaluate new initiatives in therapeutics
- To support drug and therapeutics committees
- To promote rational, high quality, cost-effective use of medicines in public hospitals and the wider community
NSW TAG has endorsed the following strategies to achieve these objectives:
- To develop position statements and guidelines for the rational use of specific drugs and drug groups
- To collect and analyse quantitative and qualitative drug usage data
- To develop and utilise specific strategies to influence prescribing behaviour and provide a counter-balance to industry promotion
- To describe and monitor the activities and decision-making of drug committees to improve equity, to increase transparency and to promote peer review/support
- To assess the impact of new pharmaceuticals on quality of patient care in the hospital system
- To disseminate information to stakeholders and educate identified target groups
- To provide advice on therapeutic matters to NSW Health
- To undertake projects on behalf of NSW Health according to availability of resources
- To conduct and facilitate research pertinent to the quality use of medicines
- To facilitate provision of economic analyses and critical appraisal of pharmacoeconomic studies
NSW TAG is funded by the NSW Ministry of Health.