HEALTH minister Sussan Ley has formally launched the Pharmacy Diabetes Screening Trial (PD 19 Oct), at an event on Sat at Amcal Chempro Pharmacy in Ashmore on the Gold Coast, Queensland.
The pharmacy is one of 363 across the country which have been randomly selected to test the effectiveness of different approaches to diabetes detection.
Eligible patients will be aged 35-74 years without diabetes or impaired blood sugar control, and will not have been tested for diabetes in the previous 12 months.
Three different models of screening the general population will be tested, with the trial aiming to improve diagnosis and thus enabling earlier interventions to prevent the development of diabetes and its complications.
The trial is a collaboration between the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, the University of Sydney and Deakin University.
Based on the screening outcome patients may then be referred to their GP for follow-up.
Ley is pictured being briefed on the trial by Amcal Chempro Pharmacy Ashmore pharmacist Justin Armstrong.
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