CATAG aims to standardise and improve medicines use in the hospital sector across Australia

The Council of Australian Therapeutic Advisory Groups (CATAG) is an authoritative, expert, consensus-based collaboration of representatives from all Australian State and Territory Therapeutic Advisory Groups or their jurisdictional committee equivalents.

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Making a medicine: Testing to treatment

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28 November 2025

Presentation

Moving medicines governance forward in Australian hospitals

This poster “Moving medicines governance forward in Australian hospitals”, outlines the updated Guiding Principles for Medicines and Therapeutics Committees (MTCs).…

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28 November 2025

Presentation

Cross-sector collaboration to design national resources for optimising transitions of care

This initiative brought together hospital and primary care partners to develop national, evidence‑based Medicines Stewardship Toolkits to support safer transitions…

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