Board to survey workforce
August 23, 2011
THE Pharmacy Board of Australia
has confirmed it will conduct a
workforce survey later this year, in
response to the ongoing concerns
about burgeoning numbers of
pharmacy graduates.
The move follows a discussion at
the last meeting of the Australian
Pharmacy Liaison Forum (APLF), at
which a number of member bodies
raised the issue of growing
numbers of pharmacists.
APLF, which includes the
Pharmacy Guild, PSA, AACP, PDL,
APESMA, Australian Pharmacy
Council, Australian College of
Pharmacy among other groups,
says its members “considered that
there is a need to establish the true
situation regarding workforce and
projections into the future”.
The organisation has met with
Health Workforce Australia on
several occasions, with one
outcome being a recognition that
accurate base data on pharmacy
workforce is vital for planning.
The Pharmacy Board has agreed
to arrange for a survey to be
undertaken, and is inviting APLF
members to submit questions.
Health Workforce Australia will
assist with survey design, and the
survey will accompany registration
renewal notices to be lodged by 30
November 2011.
“For the survey to provide the
vital information required to
underpin pharmacy workforce
planning it is essential that as many
registering pharmacists as possible
complete the survey,” said the APLF
in a statement today.
Once the information from the
survey is collated, it’s anticipated
that a profession-wide workforce
planning forum will be held in 2012
“that will aim to address some of
the concerns being expressed
about future pharmacy workforce”.
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