PHARMACY Guild executive director David Quilty has urged that decisions impacting on the community pharmacy sector be "evidence-based and informed by the most accurate and up-to-date facts and statistics".
Writing in this week's edition of the Guild's Forefront update, Quilty highlighted the Guild's strong track record of high quality economic monitoring and business tools which make the organisation "an industry leader in predicting and analysing the major trends in community pharmacy".
"Consistently, for many years, the Guild has also collected data and analysed trends in ownership, staffing, opening hours and pharmacy services...this data informs the Guild's ongoing political advocacy and partnership building and feeds into the Find a Pharmacy locational tool," he said.
Quilty confirmed the Guild is undertaking a detailed analysis of the community pharmacy supply chain in conjunction with PricewaterhouseCoopers, with the aim of enabling pharmacies to better understand how they can extract maximum value from their purchasing decisions.
The Guild is also developing a new version of its ScriptMap dispensing remuneration tool, aligned with the current PBS environment, with the updated software set for release at APP in Mar 2017, Quilty said.
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