Complimentary access to Therapeutic Guidelines

Since the 1970s, Australian health professionals have had access to Therapeutic Guidelines that provide clear, evidence-based recommendations for patient therapy that are independent of both the pharmaceutical industry and government. Health professionals working in developing countries are not so fortunate. They do not usually have access to any independent therapeutic information about which medicines to use to achieve the best health outcome for their patients. In this absence, much of their information is supplied by a willing pharmaceutical industry wanting to maximise sales of their products.

We are grateful to APLI member and volunteer mentor John Haberecht for alerting us to the Therapeutic Guidelines Foundation. One of the initiatives of the Foundation is to provide free access to Therapeutic Guidelines Limited (TGL) resources for health professionals working in low- and middle-income countries.

The two main ways TGL provide this are by giving individual access to their digital platform, eTG complete - which can be downloaded for offline use onto one laptop/personal computer, one smartphone and one tablet per account. And/or TGL can post hard copies of Therapeutic Guidelines: Palliative Care (and other relevant titles) to an address in Australia or India.

There are other ways TGL can provide access, for example, if there is a clinic with computers but not many people have smartphones then we could set up eTG complete as one admin account which can be loaded onto multiple computers.

For further information, please visit https://www.tg.org.au/the-organisation/developing-countries/ or contact Mieke Hutchinson-Kern, the Developing Countries Program Manager for Therapeutic Guidelines at developingcountries@tg.org.au