Board lays out ’13/14 plans
November 7, 2013
The Pharmacy Board of
Australia will deliver policies and
guidelines relating to “pharmacist
prescribing,” “vaccination by
pharmacists” and “advanced
practice by pharmacists” in the next
12 months, according to details
revealed in its Health Profession
Agreement with the Australian
Health Practitioners Regulation
Authority.
Released yesterday, the
agreement lays out how the Board
and AHPRA work in partnership to
implement the national registration
scheme for pharmacists.
“Publishing the agreement
demonstrates our commitment to
transparency and accountability,”
said Pharmacy Board Chair,
Associate Prof Stephen Marty.
“We are responsible for using
practitioners’ registration fees
wisely...the Board is pleased to
provide more detailed information
about how registration fees are
allocated to regulate the profession
in Australia,” he said.
Figures in the agreement show
the Pharmacy Board will have a
total income of $8.67 million - $7m
from registration fees plus income
from application charges & interest.
Expenses are budgeted at $9.45
million including $933,000 for
board and committee expenses,
$1m for legal costs and expert
advice, and $6.59m allocated to
indirect costs shared by the various
National Boards such as staff,
systems and infrastructure, with no
cross-subsidisation between the
various regulated professions.
One of the Board’s key strategic
priorities is to “work toward
nationally consistent practice
by pharmacists,” and as well
as the prescribing, vaccination
and advanced practice guideline
development there’s also a planned
paper on the “possible regulation of
pharmacy assistants/technicians”.
The Board also plans to
contribute to harmonisation of
state and territory drugs and
poisons legislation, while the
agreement also reveals that AHPRA
is considering a proposal for a
centralised CPD recording platform.
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