Archived Grant Opportunity View - GO6089

The Quality Use of Diagnostics, Therapeutics and Pathology Program (the Program) is an Australian Government initiative administered by the department. The Program was established in 1999 and provides funding to improve the way medicines and medical tests are prescribed and used. 

As part of the 2022-23 Budget Measure: Guaranteeing Medicare and Access to Medicines – Improving Access to Medical Equipment, Treatment and Diagnostics, the Program is being redesigned with two new competitive grant opportunities that will run every two years:

1. Health Professional Education Grant Opportunity (this grant opportunity); and
2. Consumer Health Literacy Grant Opportunity (also currently open for application, via GrantConnect). 

The Program contributes to the implementation of Australia’s National Medicines Policy (NMP), and the National Strategy for Quality Use of Medicines (NSQUM) by fostering cross sector collaboration and partnerships, collecting data, providing information, raising awareness and educating health professionals and consumers about the quality use of medicines and diagnostics.

Quality Use of Medicines (QUM) objectives must be achieved within a complex and crowded QUM ecosystem. This complexity underscores the need for the Program to be implemented in a manner consistent with the NSQUM’s five principles: primacy of the consumer; partnership, consultative, collaborative, multi-disciplinary activity; support for existing activity; and system-based approaches.

To view the grant opportunity documents, please select the red "Grant Opportunity Documents" button on the left-hand side.

To be eligible, you must be one of the following entity types:

• a company;
• a ‘Table A’ provider under the Higher Education Support Act 2003 (refer Table 3 below);
• an incorporated association;

and: 

• have an Australian Business Number (ABN);
• be registered for the purposes of GST;
• have an account with an Australian financial institution; and
• be located in Australia.

If you are applying as a Trustee on behalf of a Trust, the Trustee must be an eligible entity type as listed above.

Applications from consortia are acceptable, as long as you have a lead applicant who is solely accountable to the Commonwealth for the delivery of grant activities and is an eligible entity as per the list above. For further information on joint applications, refer to section 7.2.

$21,828,000.00

Submit the completed application form and all necessary attachments by the closing date and time via the red Submit Application button on the left-hand side. 

You should keep a copy of your application and any supporting documents. Registered users will receive an automated email notification acknowledging the receipt of the submission. If you do not receive an automated email notification within 48 hours of submission, please email Grant.ATM@health.gov.au. 

For technical assistance when submitting your application through GrantConnect please contact the GrantConnect Helpdesk:

• Phone: 1300 484 145
• Email: GrantConnect@finance.gov.au 

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