Guild showcases IT prowess
August 23, 2010
THE Pharmacy Guild of Australia
last week took the opportunity to
demonstrate its “many IT
initiatives” to its international
counterparts at a global gathering
on the Gold Coast.
The Pharmintercom meeting is
an annual gathering of eight peak
pharmacy bodies from seven
countries, with the aim of
discussing issues of “current and
best practices in community
pharmacy practice and professionwide
development”.
As well as the Guild,
Pharmintercom members
includethe Canadian Pharmacists
Association, the Pharmacy Guild of
NZ, the Irish Pharmaceutical Union,
the Community Pharmacist Sector
of the Pharmaceutical Society of
South Africa, the US National
Community Pharmacists
Association and the UK’s National
Pharmaceutical Association and
the Pharmaceutical Services
Negotiating Committee.
Guild President Kos Sclavos
chaired the meeting, with key issues
including the tightening of health
funding in the post global financial
period which he said had “seen a
difficulty in pharmacy accessing
funds for dispensing remuneration
as well as professional pharmacy
programs.”
He said the Guild outlined the
professional programs it had
developed privately, as well as the
Fifth Agreement programs.
“Systemising reporting through IT
enablement was a priority topic,”
he said, with accurate reporting
vital to demonstrate the savings for
government as well as establishing
the business case for third party
stakeholders.
Sclavos said he was pleased to
report that the Guild’s IT initiatives
“attracted a lot of interest from the
other Pharmintercom members”.
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