ASMI call to speed access
September 14, 2015
The Australian Self-Medication
Industry (ASMI) is calling for
the establishment of a “multistakeholder
taskforce to undertake
a comprehensive and coordinated
review of the Australian scheduling
environment, and to develop a
switch agenda to meet future
health needs”.
In a statement issued last week
ASMI said access to medicines
is key to enhancing consumer
self-care, urging Australia to keep
pace in terms of access to the best
and most affordable consumer
healthcare medicines.
Access to medicines enables more
people to obtain efficacious and
safe non-prescription medicines
from pharmacies and other retail
outlets, with the potential to
deliver significant public health,
social and economic benefits, the
statement said.
The peak self-medication
industry body has identified
what it calls “key foundational
steps” toward increasing access
to medicines: policy development
with key stakeholders, a list of
disease categories to target
with relevant medicines, broad
access to information, community
pharmacists with the skills and
tools to manage conditions
in collaboration with GPs and
regulatory processes that facilitate
medicine rescheduling.
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