RECOMMENDATIONS from the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety could be crucial to securing funding for the packing of dose administration aids (DAAs) for residential patients.
Under the yet to be released Seventh Community Pharmacy Agreement (7CPA) funding has been provided to double the current on DAAs for community-dwelling patients, while the new deal allows for uncapped access for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island peoples.
However, Pharmacy Guild of Australia National President, George Tambassis, noted that the funding does not stretch to patients in residential aged care facilities.
"DAAs are only for community patients," he said.
"The first complaint we got when DAA funding came through was 'how come there's no funding for aged care facilities?'
"Which I hear loud and clear.
"There just wasn't enough money, to fund those patients, and that's not fair.
"So maybe that's something that will come out of the Aged Care Royal Commission, and we can fund that packing for those patients through another source."
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