Key partners
National
- Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) - carries out a range of registration assessment and monitoring activities to ensure that therapeutic goods which are available in Australia are of an acceptable standard with the aim of ensuring that the Australian community has access, within a reasonable time, to therapeutic advances
- Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) - responsible for the registration and accreditation of 10 health professions across Australia
- Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) - role includes the registration of all agricultural and veterinary chemical products into the Australian marketplace
- Australian Federal Police (AFP) - (undertakes a range of federally-based investigation and operational activities, security risk management, security vetting and information services to assist public)
- Other State and Territory government drugs and poisons units
Queensland
- Queensland Health Public Health Units - role includes the enforcement of labelling and compositional requirements, surveillance, investigation of complaints and provision of information relating to drugs and poisons
- Queensland Health Forensic and Scientific Services - provide comprehensive public health science laboratory services
- Queensland Poisons Information Centre - provides information and advice to assist in the management of poisonings and suspected poisonings
- Queensland Police Service - provides high quality, innovative, progressive and responsive policing services
- Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) - protects and promotes Queensland's primary industries
- Veterinary Surgeons Board of Queensland - responsible for the registration of veterinary specialists in Queensland
- Work Health and Safety Act 2011 - legislation regarding your requirements around workplace health and safety
Industry and professional organisations
Pest management
- Queensland Building and Construction Commission
- Department of Education and Training
- Industrial Relations (part of the Queensland Treasury)
- Fire Ants Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF)
- Agvet chemicals and residues Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF)
- enHealth
- Department of Environment and Resource Management
- Training.gov.au (TGA). National Register of information on Training Packages, Qualifications, Courses, Units of Competency and Registered Training Organisations (RTOs)
- Queensland Poisons Information Centre
- Australian Environmental Pest Management Association
Medicines
- American Society of Health System Pharmacists
- Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare
- Australian Prescriber
- Australian Sports Antidoping Authority (ASADA)
- Griffith University School of Pharmacy and Pharmacology
- Immunise Australia
- James Cook University Centre for Biodiscovery and Molecular Development of Therapeutics
- Mayne Pharma Clozapine Monitoring System
- National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE-UK)
- National Medicines Policy
- National Prescribing Service
- Novartis Clozapine Monitoring System Website
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC)
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) Schedule
- Pharmaceutical Society of Australia
- Pharmacy Board of Australia
- Pharmacy Guild of Australia
- Quality Use of Medicines - Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
- Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia
- The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP - US)
- Therapeutic Goods Administration
- University of Queensland School of Pharmacy
- United States Food and Drug Administration
- World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics Methodology
- World Health Organisation Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy
- World Health Organisation UPPSALA Monitoring Centre (WHO Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring)
- Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Medicines and Poisons (SUSMP)
- Good manufacturing and wholesaling practice for medicines (S2, S3, S4, and S8) See the TGA website for further information about good manufacturing and wholesaling practice
- Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority - for more information about agricultural and veterinary chemical products
Last updated: 17 August 2020
