Health systems and capacity building
North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network (NWMPHN) and the North and West Metropolitan Region Palliative Care Consortium (NWMRPCC) invite expressions of interest from residential Aged Care Homes (RACH) to implement an imprest medication management system.
Applications close 5pm AEDT on 10 January 2025.
An imprest system allows appropriately registered health practitioners to prescribe and access medications for urgent and end-of-life use, when pharmacy issued stock is not available within a clinically appropriate timeframe. Examples include antibiotics and Schedule 8 pain relief medicines.
As part of its capability-building work, NWMPHN is providing RACHs with the opportunity to apply for grants of $4,000 (excluding GST) to support imprest establishment. Five applicants will be chosen.
This is the second round of applications invited. The first round saw 10 RACHs funded.
For more details about the imprest project, see this NWMPHN story.
Click here (.pdf) to access the EOI.
