NHMRC launches Clinical Practice Guidelines Portal and Register

2/03/2010 1:44:47 PM

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has launched a new national Clinical Practice Guidelines Portal that will provide links to current Australian guidelines developed by governments, professional colleges, specialty societies and non-government agencies. The Parliamentary Secretary for Health, the Hon Mark Butler MP, launched the Portal and Register in Melbourne on Friday 26 February.

Clinical practice guidelines are critical tools used by health professionals and researchers to improve the health of Australians, yet in the past have often been hard to locate, difficult to access and sometimes out of date. The new portal is a ‘one stop shop’ for clinicians, researchers, policy makers and consumers to access guidelines developed during the preceding five years for use in the Australian health care system.

www.clinicalguidelines.gov.au