PSA likes DAA enhancement

THE Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) has thrown its support behind the government’s and Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s announcement under the 6CPA which will see an extra 70,000 Australians each week supported to better manage their prescription medicines through the Government’s expansion of the Dose Administration Aids (DAA) program in community pharmacies ( PD yesterday).

Minister for Health Greg

Hunt ( pictured with the team at Wilkinson’s Pharmacy) chose healthSAVE Wilkinson’s Pharmacy in the coastal town of Burnie, Tasmania, to make the announcement yesterday.

The PSA said it welcomed the plan to expand the successful DAA program from 01 Jul 2018 which will allow pharmacists to provide an additional 3.8 million DAA services.

PSA national president Dr Shane Jackson said, “Lifting the amount of funding, and supporting services that can be provided by pharmacists such as DAAs will have a significant impact on improving medication adherence, and improve health outcomes for patients who take multiple medicines.

“There is no doubt that many services provided by pharmacists can improve medicines management, and we look forward to a similar expansion of other existing programs such as Home Medicines Review, Medscheck and other Community Pharmacy Agreement programs in the future.”

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