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This page contains the latest news from SHPA. Also check the Current Issues page for information about other recent events and issues, or the Manufacturers’ Alerts page for important information that SHPA has received from manufacturers of medicines.
Department of Health and Ageing and TGA response to heparin supply issues - May 2008
Go to Manufacturers' Alerts page for more details.
Pharmacists as part of the multidisciplinary team in GP Super Clinics - May 2008
SHPA says that pharmacists with skills suitable to meet the local community needs should be available at each clinic. Clinic pharmacists could provide services themselves, liaise with other health settings (including hospitals) and act as a broker and referral mechanism to the consumer's local community pharmacy for services available there (e.g. home medicines reviews). Australian GP Super Clinics may include co-located pharmacies (community or hospital), but the most important aspect is for the skills of a pharmacist to be available. This would mean that as for other health professionals, pharmacists would need to be added to current Medicare reimbursement arrangements. A flexible approach designed to meet the local community needs of GP Super Clinics would allow participation:
- from individual pharmacists (considered as independent practitioners as for all other allied health professions currently under Medicare); or
- via a community pharmacy; or
- via a director of pharmacy of a public or private hospital.
Read the full SHPA position statement
SHPA National Conference
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Medicines Management 2008
The 34th SHPA national conference
Adelaide Convention Centre,
4-7 September 2008
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We gratefully acknowledge
the support of our
Education Partner, Roche |
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Australian Injectable Drugs Handbook (AIDH) updated monographs available here
Chemotherapy poster now available for all hospital pharmacies Click here
Updated 4 July 2008
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