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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
NOVA Public Policy gratefully acknowledges the contributions to this project of:
• All the pharmacists and pharmacy staff in the 50 pharmacies around Australia that
participated in the project.
• Dr Simone Jones, Research and Development Grants Program Manager, The Pharmacy
Guild of Australia and Ms Erica Vowles, Acting Research and Development Grants
Program Manager, The Pharmacy Guild of Australia, both of whom gave generously of
their time at various stages of this project and worked collegially and supportively with all
members of the NOVA Public Policy project team
• The Pharmacy Group Expert Advisory Group for this project, comprising
o Peter McBeath, National Councillor, The Pharmacy Guild of Australia
o Dr John Primrose – Senior Medical Advisor, Pharmaceutical Access and Quality
Branch, Department of Health and Ageing Public Policy
o Kerry Markoulli, Director, Special Needs Strategies Section, Department of Health and
Ageing
o Matthew Ryan, Pharmaceutical Society of Australia
o Hugh Carter, Consumer Representative
o Khin Win May, The Pharmacy Guild of Australia (staff)
o Fiona Campbell, Assistant Director, Special Needs Strategies Section, Department of
Health and Ageing
with executive support from Simone Jones and Erica Vowles, The Pharmacy Guild of
Australia
• Assoc. Professor, Richard Millard, Professor of Urology, University of NSW, The Prince of
Wales Hospital, Sydney for pro bono provision of the flip chart design, text and CD ROM
developed by him and used as the basis for a set of information materials for general
practitioners, Treating Urinary Incontinence in the Community, which in 2004 was
distributed to all GPs in Australia through the Department of Health and Ageing National
Continence Management Strategy
• the NOVA Public Policy panel of expert advisers that provided the NOVA team with
clinical, pharmacological and industry advice and guidance on the design, implementation
and evaluation of the project and supportive advice on clinical, practice and research
issues that arose during the conduct of the project. Panel members were:
o John Bell, Pharmacist, Woollahra, NSW
o Assoc. Professor Richard Millard, Professor of Urology, University of NSW, The Prince
of Wales Hospital, Sydney
o Assoc. Professor Kate H Moore, School of Women’s and Children’s Health, University
of NSW, St George Hospital, Kogarah, NSW
o Rebekah Moles, Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sydney
o Alice-Anne Macnaught, adviser in carer issues and experience, ACT
• those individuals who generously and openly contributed their personal experiences to
the development of professional and consumer information materials for the project
Final Report i NOVA Public Policy
Pharmacy Continence Care Project