Quality and Safety
NSW Medication Safety Strategy

Statewide Medication Safety Committee

Secretariat: Quality & Safety Branch
Email: quality@doh.health.nsw.gov.au
tel: 02 9391 9200

The NSW Department of Health Statewide Medication Safety Committee is responsible for advising NSW Health regarding:

• Medication safety risk management and performance measurement
• Medication safety policy requirements
• Implementation of medication safety policy
• The use of tools to improve medication safety (including information technology)
• Quality use of medicines guidelines and their implementation
• Allocation of resources to support medication safety initiatives

Meeting documents will be distributed one week prior to the meeting in our secure website (username and password required).

2009 meetings

Meetings in 2009 are held from 9.00 a.m. to 12.00 p.m. at the NSW Department of Health, North Sydney.
The dates and venues are as follows: