PATIENTS to benefit in Qld: Patients in Queensland will benefit from last week's ground-breaking decision of the State Government to accept in principle a range of recommendations to make better use of community pharmacists' scope of practice.
The Queensland Government has accepted all of the recommendations of last year's Parliamentary Committee inquiry into pharmacists' scope of practice and the establishment of a Pharmacy Council.
The Government response directs Queensland Health to develop and evaluate a State-wide trial to provide low-risk emergency and repeat prescriptions for the contraceptive pill and for antibiotics for urinary tract infections.
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia particularly wants to thank the many Queensland Guild Members who made submissions to the Committee, providing evidence and argument that was clearly compelling.
This a major step forward for patient care and sensible use of the community pharmacy network.
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