National Medication Management Plans

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The national Medication Management Plan (MMP) is an initiative of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission). The MMP provides health service providers with a standardised form that can be used by nursing, medical, pharmacy and allied health staff to improve the accuracy of information recorded on admission and available to the clinician responsible for therapeutic decision making.

A standardised form to record the medicines taken prior to presentation at the hospital and use for reconciling patients’ medicines on admission, intra-hospital transfer and at discharge is considered essential for the medication reconciliation process. The national MMP provides Australian hospitals with a suitable form to use for this purpose The MMP form has been designed for use in adult and paediatric patients.

The MMP is based on the Medication Action Plan developed by the Safe Medication Management Unit, Queensland Health. This work was done in consultation with nurses, doctors and pharmacists. The MMP aligns with the Australian Pharmaceutical Advisory Council’s Guiding principles to achieve continuity in medication management. It incorporates the minimum data set for a medication history outlined in guiding principle 4 – Accurate medication history.

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