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Delivering a Healthy WA
Office of Safety and Quality in Healthcare
To promote customer focused, safe, quality health care in Western Australia

WATAG

The role of the Western Australian Therapeutics Advisory Group (WATAG) is to promote rational therapeutic drug use in WA. In addition to supporting the quality use of medicines, WATAG provides independent advice to health professionals, health services and Department of Health regarding the use of drugs and therapeutics in the public hospital and wider community setting in WA.

Three subcommittees are established under WATAG, namely:

The WAMSG aims to reduce patient harm associated with medication errors. This subcommittee operates by involving stakeholders and local experts to develop standards that may be uniformly applied throughout the WA Health System.