full scope of practice
New database to support evolution of pharmacy
As the profession evolves FIP is introducing a new database to support the expansion of pharmacists’ scope of practice The International Pharmaceutical Federation’s (FIP’s) Impact Database was launched on Sunday …
Top 10 APP 2024 quotes
Discussions at the 2024 Australian Pharmacy Professional Conference (APP) covered a range of issues including the 8CPA, 60-day dispensing and the need to embrace full scope of practice. “If you …
A needle in a haystack
Pharmacy’s role in vaccination provision continues to expand, and is a rare example of agreement with the federal government. We look at how we’ve got here, and what are the …
Multidisciplinary role the future for full scope: Minister
Federal minister and pharmacist Emma McBride speaks about increasing the profession’s scope of practice and on strategies to address healthcare workforce and access issues The COVID-19 pandemic “really emphasised” the …
Employees back full scope push with caveats
Improvements to community pharmacists pay and conditions are needed before they take on new tasks such as prescribing, Professional Pharmacists Australia (PPA) says Data from a survey of PPA members shows that …
GPs seek to protect pharmacists from prescribing risks
Authorising pharmacists to prescribe will expose employee pharmacists to “significant risks”, while delivering “poor patient health outcomes”, GPs warn In a statement responding to workforce capacity concerns raised by Professional …
‘It doesn’t have to be this way.’
The Strengthening Medicare Taskforce recommended that health professionals work to full scope – but one leading pharmacist is wary of the timeline The Taskforce’s report, which was released earlier this …
RACGP, NACCHO aligned in enmity to pharmacist prescribing
Efforts to expand pharmacists’ scope of practice will adversely affect Indigenous patients’ healthcare two leading health bodies warn Assertions by the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACHHO)that the introduction …
Scope harmonisation required
State and territory governments are being urged to adopt a harmonised approach to the expansion of pharmacists’ scope of practice. With several premiers voicing their support for pharmacists to …
Medicare Taskforce wants barriers to full scope removed
Barriers preventing primary care health professionals, including pharmacists, from working to their full scope need to be removed, the Strengthening Medicare Taskforce believes. The Strengthening Medicare Taskforce Report released …
Stop pretending full scope ‘isn’t going to cost’
Pharmacists working to their full scope of practice will not be the panacea to Australia’s primary healthcare woes, if programs are not adequately funded. In a post on the Rural …
Interest in pharmacist services, GP access issues: Survey
New survey results show governments should “clear the way” for pharmacists to do more, argues Pharmacy Guild Many Australians would feel comfortable receiving a wider range of services from pharmacists …