Board updates new policies
September 10, 2010
THE Pharmacy Board of Australia
has clarified its policy regarding the
responsibilities of proprietor
pharmacists, with an update from
its most recent meeting stating that
proprietors must ‘maintain an
awareness of the manner in which
their pharmacy is being conducted
and where necessary, intervention
to ensure that the pharmacy is
properly conducted’.
The updated guidelines also
stipulate that ‘that proprietors must
have an understanding of the range
of pharmacy and non-pharmacy
goods sold, and services provided
at the pharmacy (and the liability
associated with providing such
services), e.g. teeth whitening
products and pathology collection
services’.
MEANWHILE the Board also
provided further definition of its
standard regarding pharmacists’
Regency of Practice registration
requirement, stipulating that to
comply, pharmacists must have
practiced for at least 450 hours
within the past three years
Where an applicant wishes to
return to practice, the Board will
determine a period of supervised
practice, education program and
assessment and/or examination to
be undertaken by the applicant on
an individual basis depending on:
when the applicant last practiced in
Australia; the nature of their
practice as a pharmacist in another
jurisdiction and activities
undertaken during the period since
the applicant last practiced as a
pharmacist in Australia.
See www.pharmacyboard.gov.au.
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