A Fourth Community Pharmacy Agreement program has largely succeeded in improving medicines use and health outcomes in indigenous communities, the Pharmacy Guild of Australia believes.
The Quality Use of Medicines Maximised for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (QUMAX) Program provides quality use of medicines support to participating community pharmacies and Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHS) in rural and urban Australia.
The program focused on trialling a number of QUM activities to address the known barriers to access PBS medicines in non-remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
According to the final report on the program, there had been a positive impact across a range of patient areas.
From November 2008 to June 2010 approximately 34,000 eligible Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people...
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