Pharmacist Rx
THE Pharmacy Board of Australia (PBA) has now published all submissions from stakeholders to the pharmacist prescribing discussion paper.
The discussion paper, published by the Board in Mar 2019, posed a range of questions about the potential role for pharmacists in prescribing (PD 06 Mar).
This followed the Pharmacist Prescribing Forum in June 2018, hosted by the PBA to help participants consider and discuss the need and opportunities for expanding pharmacist involvement in prescribing.
The PBA said the discussion paper was intended to help the profession, stakeholders and the public to explore opportunities for pharmacist prescribing, through one or more of the models of nonmedical prescribing outlined in the Health Professionals Prescribing Pathway 2013.
While a number of submissions supported pharmacist prescribing, there was an acknowledgement that more training would be required for pharmacists.