Queensland Community Pharmacy Scope of Practice Pilot
The launch of the Queensland Community Pharmacy Scope of Practice Pilot is very exciting news for the Pharmacy Industry. In April we gathered at DFO Cairns to launch the pilot. Our Chief Pharmacist Demi Pressley was announced as the first fully qualified precribing pharmacist in Australia.
Note from our Managing Director, Georgina Twomey:
The Queensland Full Scope of Practice Pilot has officially launched. Alive Pharmacy Stores are some of the first participating pharmacies in Australia. As our pharmacists complete their training they will be qualified to provide three additional types of services to our community. This includes:
- Medication management: if you’ve run out of your prescription repeats.
- Prescribing for specific acute common conditions like reflux, ear infections, psoriasis, shingles, nausea, allergies, mild to moderate dermatitis or acne, acute minor wound management, or hormonal contraception.
- Protocol/structural prescribing as part of chronic disease management such as type 2 diabetes, asthma, obesity, smoking cessation.
We’re excited for more of our pharmacists to graduate the program, and we commend them on the hard work and study they have done to become pioneers in pharmacist prescribing in Australia.
Find more information about the pilot here. Follow our Facebook page for updates and information about consultation availability.