NPS MedicineWise benzodiazepine hub
Online hub with tapering resources for clinicians and patients to reduce risks of benzodiazepine use, developed with Reconnexion.
- Years
- 2018–now
- Country
- Australia
- Topic
- Low value carePatient safetySleep
- Asks people to
- Stop
- Strategy
- Simple instruction
- Channel
- Website
- Audience
- AdultsClinicianshealth professionals, patients
Evidence
NoneUnknown
No evaluation found. Australian dispensing data showed little change in Choosing Wisely benzodiazepine indicators 2013-2016 (15.3% of people 65+ dispensed a benzodiazepine in 2016).
Sponsor (who paid)
- NPS MedicineWise NGO
- Reconnexion NGO
Credits (who made it)
Not recorded yet.
Sources
- New sleep medication management resource news · 2019
- Choosing wisely? Quantifying the extent of three low value psychotropic prescribing practices in Australia reference · 2018 · DOI 10.1186/s12913-018-3811-5 · PMID 30594192
Research notes
Created 2026-10-23 from the sleep campaign literature search (PubMed and web search; OpenAlex was unreachable), see docs/sleep-campaigns-literature.md. Findings are paraphrased from abstracts, not full texts; official URLs come from search results and were not opened. Thin evidence. No NPS MedicineWise programme specifically on sleeping pills was found. startYear 2018 is the earliest dated source found, not a confirmed launch year.
Record cases/nps-medicinewise-benzodiazepine-hub.json, updated 2026-10-23· Link to this campaign