THE Pharmacy Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia (PhARIA) values for the 2019/20 financial year have been updated and posted as a series of spreadsheets on the University of Adelaide website - CLICK HERE.
The numbers were crunched by the Hugo Centre for Migration and Population Research, within the university.
The 6th Community Pharmacy Agreement (6CPA) Pharmacy Programs Administrator describes the PhARIA as a composite index, which quantifies the degree of remoteness (both geographic and professional) of pharmacies for the purposes of administering the Rural Pharmacy Maintenance Allowance and other rural workforce programs funded under the 6CPA.
Explanations around the classification system for the concept of remoteness are given on the website.
The PhARIA project was undertaken by GISCA, the (then) Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, and the Pharmacy Guild of Australia.
PhARIA continues to be maintained by the Hugo Centre on behalf of the Commonwealth Department of Health.
The Hugo Centre provides public access to the PhARIA map service which contains data for the current and most recent financial year.
The map service is interactive, allowing users to zoom in and out, find localities of interest and view various map layers containing other information of interest, such as main roads, post codes and PhARIA categories.
CLICK HERE to access the interactive map (pictured above).
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