PSA welcomes Guild plan
June 4, 2010
THE Pharmaceutical Society of
Australia says the Pharmacy Guild’s
new Roadmap for community
pharmacy (PD Wed) is a welcome
contribution to the debate on
pharmacy’s future in Australia.
PSA President Warwick Plunkett
said the Guild document has a
clear focus on the business side of
community pharmacy “and this is
in keeping with the Guild’s
membership base of community
pharmacy owners.
“This focus is also reflected in the
professional programs which the
Roadmap correctly addresses as
playing a central role in pharmacy’s
future, which PSA had already
identified in its Issues Paper on the
Future of Australian Pharmacy,”
Plunkett said (PD 26 May).
However the PSA’s Issues Paper
had been developed with a view to
generating wide-ranging debate on
the future of the profession and
provides a whole-of-profession
approach and debate, “which
unfortunately the Roadmap will not
do,” Plunkett added.
He said the PSA’s approach
invites consultation from across the broad range of stakeholders in the
profession, “because PSA sees
significant change ahead in the
flexibility and structure of the
remuneration model for pharmacy
which will affect everyone involved
in the profession, regardless of
which sector they are involved in.”
Plunkett emphasised that the
input of all stakeholders is vital to
the process “to ensure that the
future direction we take is the right
one for pharmacy and for the needs
of Australian health consumers.
“The Guild’s Roadmap will help
inform that consultation process
and we look forward to further
input from the Guild as the
principal representative of
pharmacy owners,” he said.
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