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Onerous pharmacist registration requirements driving locums away

Jonathan

Chilton Towle

jct@pharmacytoday.co.nz

Tuesday 3 December 2019, 10:14 AM

The costs and workload associated with keeping up pharmacist registration are driving locums out of the workforce, and rural pharmacies are suffering., Viv Bath mug, Owner of Kaeo pharmacy Viv Bath

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Dave McKee

Tuesday 03/12/2019

"Mr McMichael believes the solution lies in pharmacy leadership working to ensure the sector is properly funded."

Could Ian please advise what the Council is doing to ensure that pharmacies are adequately funded?

Alice Madsen

Tuesday 03/12/2019

Hi Dave

The pharmacy council doesn't get involved with funding issues, which is more an issue for the Pharmacy Guild and the local Pharmacy Groups.

Ian is more involved with the Pharmaceutical Society, which is about insuring that pharmacists maintain their proper standards by recording their education, via enhance and developing new services which are expanding the scope of practice of pharmacists. PSNZ is also about constantly advocating on behalf of the profession.

PSNZ has worked hard to keep their fees below inflation so that less pressure is put onto pharmacists, financially.

Dave McKee

Tuesday 03/12/2019

So...when you say "the solution lies in pharmacy leadership working to ensure the sector is properly funded" you're not meaning all pharmacy leaders? ie, just Guild? I don't think anyone in the "leadership group" can absolve themselves of responsiblity here, otherwise it's just a cop out.

Vivienne Bath

Tuesday 03/12/2019

I think part of the solution lies in locums falling as a business under the business model which is the Guild and it may have to adapt but it's largely the cost pressures on pharmacies combined with no part time registration options and I think we should have been given funded minor ailments emergency supplies and intervention funding long ago

our help to hold up patients and GP practice is not understood or funded

Our advice should not be linked to commercial sales

we are heading down an obsolete path because of many disrupters in the sector who are trying to make money ... sad really ..

I asked the question is this chemist needed to a client the other day .. even on limited hours I get an overwhelming yes...