Key opportunities
September 6, 2010
THE key to solving young
pharmacists workforce issues
relating to oversupply lies in new
opportunities outside of traditional
pharmacy models, according to the
chair of the Pharmaceutical Society
of Australia’s Early Career Pharmacist
Working Group, Justin Lee.
The comments come on the back
of recently released figures which
showed that the number of new
nationwide pharmacy student
enrolments in 2002 were 4241
compared to 6115 in 2006.
“Since then that number has
risen even further with the entry of
more pharmacy schools and so
great is the problem that it was
researched recently by an ECPWG
survey of early career pharmacists,”
Lee said.
According to the results of the
survey, early career pharmacists
viewed workforce oversupply as
their ‘primary concern’.
“Some ECPs seem unable to find
full-time work and seem
disillusioned with their future in the
profession,” said Lee.
“This is also having an impact on
wages for pharmacists,” he added.
In terms of a solution, Lee
suggested that new opportunities
created through additional
professional services or new retail
models where non-dispensing
pharmacists are “fully utilised” may
be two ways of helping to find
young pharmacists work.
To view the ECP survey results see
www.psa.org.au/ecp.
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