SHPA produces a range of position statements to explain key policy positions for members and the broader community, and articulate SHPA’s considered views on key topics and issues that are relevant to the professional role of members. SHPA also produces a range of fact sheets which explain the role of hospital pharmacy departments, cognitive services and other hospital pharmacist activities. SHPA fact sheets and position statements are developed by SHPA subject matter experts and approved by the SHPA Board of Directors.
Position statements
SHPA-endorsed statements
Practice updates
Fact Sheets for the community
Fact Sheets for Hospital Pharmacists
Victorian Branch Fact Sheets
Position statements
- Medication Safety Position Statement - September 2020
- Closing the loop of medication management in hospitals to improve patient safety with barcoding technology on unit dose packaging - June 2019
- Codeine: Up-scheduling of codeine- containing medicines to Schedule 4 Prescription Only - May 2018
- APLF recognises the lack of evidence for homeopathy (APLF position statement) - September 2015
- Complete and current medication lists - August 2015
- Pharmacists have established roles in interdisciplinary teams - June 2015
- Shaping the future for medication management review services for consumers at risk - February 2014
- Independent governance to develop professional pharmacist services - February 2014
- Clinical pharmacy services optimise patient health outcomes and care - October 2013
- National competencies for the prescribing of medicines - October 2012
- Pharmacists as part of the multidisciplinary team in GP Super Clinics - June 2009
SHPA-endorsed statements
- Supporting safe practices for low-dose methotrexate: Position statement on the use of low-dose methotrexate - Council of Australian Therapeutic Advisory Groups, October 2020
- Sustainable access to prescription opioids for use in palliative care - Palliative Care Australia, May 2019
Practice Updates
- Take-home naloxone in Australian hospitals - November 2020
- Hospital-initiated medication reviews - November 2020
- Factors to consider for the implementation of automated pharmacy distribution systems in hospitals and health services - June 2019
- Preparation of Mycobacterium bovis (Bacillus Calmette-Guerin) immunotherapy - February 2019
Fact Sheets for the community
Risk factors for medication-related problems (SHPA Fact Sheet)
So You're Going into Hospital (SHPA consumer information)
Fact Sheets for Hospital Pharmacists
SHPA's suite of fact sheets can be used by hospital pharmacy managers to promote the role of hospital pharmacists and are prepared as standalone documents.
Fact sheets are designed to support you in your discussions with CEOs, hospital managers and department heads to highlight the valuable contribution pharmacists make within your organisation. They can also be used when lobbying for funding for new positions and the inclusion of pharmacists as part of healthcare teams within various clinical units and departments in your hospitals.
SHPA acknowledges the unrestricted research grant provided by Celgene which supported this initiative through the Research into Practice pharmacist role.
- Antimicrobial stewardship - prevent and reduce infections and antimicrobial resistance
fact sheet | references and background material - Clinical pharmacy services - optimising patient health outcomes
fact sheet | references - Consider medication misadventure during Emergency Department attendances
fact sheet | references and background material - Medication assessment at pre-admission for elective surgery
fact sheet | references and background material - Medication reconciliation - how do pharmacists add value?
fact sheet | references and background material - Organisational medication safety: managing risk - how pharmacists help
fact sheet - Timely medication management in Medical Assessment and Planning Units
fact sheet | references and background material
Victorian Branch Fact Sheets
- Drugs Poisons and Controlled Substances Regulations 2017
fact sheet
