Pharmacy ethics
June 22, 2010
PHARMACY has for the first time
ever been placed “as a profession
front and centre of an international
stage in the context of a conference
on professional ethics,” according
to the organisers of last week’s
17th Annual Conference of the
Australian Association for
Professional and Applied Ethics,
held at the Faculty of Pharmacy at
Sydney University.
The event included the inaugural
Pharmacy Law and Ethics workshop
led by a panel comprised of Dr
Betty Chaar, Prof. Nerida Smith and
Prof. Maree Simpson, and which was
attended by prominent pharmacists
from across the country and NZ.
The workshop aimed to provide a
summary of the current industry
ethics position, as well as contribute
to the revision of the new
Pharmaceutical Society of Australia
Code of Conduct (PD 08 Jun).
Together with the panel,
workshop members nutted out the
processes involved in revising a new
Code, including consultation,
filtering and deciding upon which
values the profession wants to
identify with, deciding how to
articulate these values and what
format to place them in, and also
disseminating the information to
practising pharmacists.
Participants also spent time
comparing the current Australian
code with existing international
codes, whilst the NZ contingent
shared their recent experiences of
revising their code.
“Overall, it was an intense,
stimulating workshop, inviting
much thoughtful reflection on
values in the practice of pharmacy
in Australia,” Chaar said.
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