Authors

Jill Thistlethwaite

MBBS, PhD, MMEd, FRCGP, FRACGP, Medical Adviser, NPS MedicineWise, Sydney, NSW; Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney, NSW; Honorary Professor, University of Queensland, Qld. jthistlethwaite@nps.org.au

Evaluating and prescribing new medicines in general practice

GPs receive updates to their knowledge on a daily basis. They want accurate summaries of a medicine’s properties, efficacy and side-effect profile from trusted sources on which to base a decision.