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Mon 1st August 2022

Butler plots ‘sensible’ full scope push Ensuring all health professionals, including pharmacists, can work to their full scope of practice will be key to managing workforce shortages, Federal Minister for Health and Aged Care, Mark Butler, believes.

Addressing the opening session of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia’s (PSA’s) Conference on Fri, Butler described the push to have pharmacists operating to their maximum potential, as “unfinished business” from Labor’s last term in office.

“It just doesn’t make sense to me as an Australian, but also as a Health Minister, that the enormous investment the community makes in training hundreds of thousands of health professionals is limited by not allowing people to operate at the top of their scope,” he said.

“It doesn’t make sense to me, as demand for healthcare is climbing dramatically - leaving aside the impact of COVID-19, we continue to have constrained supply of health

workers - not to have every single healthcare professional, whether they’re doctors, nurses, allied health professionals or pharmacists, working as close as possible to the top of their scope.

“I know as well as you do that, that’s a contested proposition, and it’s not easy to step through that proposition without enlivening turf wars that can become very debilitating for community confidence, as well as substantive outcomes.

“It’s something we tried to do when we were last in Government... and for the Labor Party I see it very much as unfinished business, something that I do want to come back to.”

Butler also flagged the launch of the Department of Health and Aged Care’s consultation process about the role of on-site pharmacists in aged care.

“We’ve got to define the role of the on-site pharmacists,” he said.

“We’ve got to ensure that

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we’re very clear about training requirements for those pharmacists who will be working in residential aged care.

“Funding models will be important, and also that we’re able to measure health outcomes.”

With negotiations for the Eighth Community Pharmacy Agreement (8CPA) on the horizon, Butler noted that the inclusion of the PSA as a co-signatory of the 7CPA was “an overdue and welcome advance... it’s one that I can’t see any reason to not reflect as we move into negotiations for 8CPA”.

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Mon 1st August 2022

Dispensary Corner Nigerian pharmacist, Saviour Ikin Akpan, is hoping his time on reality TV show, Big Brother Naija, with help him make the leap from the dispensary to the silver screen.

Also known as Pharmsavi, the pharmacist has said that he also wants to use his time on the show to “create awareness about drug abuse and misuse, especially among the youth”.

The 30-year-old has warned his Big Brother housemates that his perfectionist tendencies may seem annoying.

“People always say I suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) because I like things to be clean and in order,” he said.

Nigerian news network RNN has reported that Pharmsavi was “not in the Big Brother Naija house for the money, but also to kickstart his dreams of becoming a professional actor”.

The publication reported that the pharmacist has an estimated net worth of more than $71,000.

‘Don’t run away’ from pharmacy: Sim Disaffected pharmacists considering abandoning their careers, should think twice, Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) National President, Dr Fei Sim, believes.

Speaking at the PSA Conference on Fri, Sim urged pharmacists who are thinking about walking away from the profession to focus their energy on making it better, instead of dropping out.

“I get really saddened when I have students in their final year, or young early career pharmacists who have recently graduated come back and say, ‘can I see you Fei, because you know, out there in practice it’s not how you taught us’,” she said.

“I say to them, ‘just because there are challenges and issues within our profession, don’t run away’.

“I get really disheartened if someone says, ‘I’m too good for pharmacy, I just realised it, so I want

to leave pharmacy and go and do something else’.

“No, use your energy, use your passion, use your capabilities, stay with pharmacy, because this is our career.

“You haven’t just bought a bottle of water from the supermarket, you have to have a level of commitment.

“Stay with pharmacy - if we all work together, we can make our profession better.

“Don’t run away. If we keep running away what’s going to happen to pharmacy?”

Sim also set a number of goals including boosting the profile of the sector, for her term as National President.

“We need to make pharmacy better,” she said.

“Community pharmacists play a big role and we’ve seen that through the pandemic - integrating community pharmacists into

the wider primary care team is absolutely crucial.

“We do so much, but we’re not often in the public eye, or seen in the mainstream media... that’s something I’d like to do in my presidency... so that people will see that we’re sitting right there next to the medical profession with other allied health professionals, with Government and the Department [of Health and Aged Care], working collaboratively.”

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Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) National President, Dr Fei Sim, says she is looking forward to working with the Australian Medical Association’s (AMA’s) new leadership team.

Sim congratulated incoming AMA President, Professor Steve Robson, and Vice President, Dr Danielle McMullen, who were elected as the organisation’s new leaders over the weekend.

“The health system and our communities need us - and I

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look forward to - working with you and your team to form a closer working relationship between doctors and pharmacists,” Sim said.

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Top pharmacists honoured by PSA Australia’s first registered Indigenous pharmacist, Associate Professor Faye McMillan, has been named as the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia’s (PSA’s) Pharmacist of the Year (PD breaking news).

McMillan has led a paradigm shift in the way that First Nations people seek and access healthcare, as a member of the Closing the Gap Committee.

“What I’m most proud of is the opportunities to elevate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and the strength of what culture does mean for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people,” she said.

“It’s been the opportunity to see the inclusion of not just Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders into the workplace, but into informing decisions about how we provide services with, rather than to, people in community.

“For pharmacy is it that understanding that we need to

challenge our perceptions of what Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in communities have the potential to be.”

Pharmacy powerhouse couple, Terry and Rhonda White, were jointly honoured as the recipients of the PSA’s Lifetime Achievement Award for their impact on the profession .

“From pharmacy practice in the early 60’s to what pharmacy is today has been an enormously significant change in the profession,” Terry said.

“It was and is a very successful partnership in life and business.

“Rhonda’s role has been the creation of systems and the professional development of pharmacists.

“She truly has been the heart and soul of the brand, and is to this day.”

Wangaratta-based GP pharmacist, Deborah Hawthorne, was named as the Early Career Pharmacist of the Year.

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PSA National President, Dr Fei Sim, praised Hawthorn’s efforts to work collaboratively with her community and championing medicines safety.

Curtin University graduate, Shaylee Mills, took home the PSA MIMS Intern Pharmacist of the Year title, while South Australian, Sean Richardson, was named as the inaugural PSA Locumate Locum Pharmacist of the Year.

University of Tasmania’s Haylee Shaw took home the coveted PSA Viatris Pharmacy Student of the Year Award.

RAT frustration Tasmanian officials should rethink the State’s new COVID-19 rapid antigen test (RAT) rollout, the Pharmacy Guild of Australia believes.

Guild Tasmanian Branch President, Helen O’Byrne, said the State Government should use the community pharmacy network as distribution points for the scheme, in line with the Commonwealth’s concessional scheme, which end yesterday.

O’Byrne said the new approach was leaving eligible patients confused and frustrated.

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