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Supermarket appeal won Penalty rates review?
THE Australian Retailers
A PHARMACIST on the NSW single entrance. Association (ARA) says it will
three pages of news plus a full
Central Coast has won the right Tribunal deputy president Bernard strongly oppose any application
page from Wizard Pharmacy.
to operate a dispensary as part McCabe considered evidence about from the Shop, Distributive & Allied
of a convenience store, after an whether the proposed business Employees Association for judicial
Analgesics course Administrative Appeals Tribunal was technically a supermarket review of the Sunday penalty rates
GUILD Learning and ruling following an initial decision with Seed saying this should only decision (PD 22 Feb 2017).
Development has partnered with by the Australian Community extend to larger stores like those ARA executive director Russell
Reckitt Benckiser (RB), the makers Pharmacy Authority denying him operated by Coles, Woolworths and Zimmerman said the change to
of Nurofen products, to develop permission for the operation. Aldi, or perhaps IGA. Sunday pay levels was passed by
a CPD-accredited online course Geoff Seed sought approval to The Authority said the definition the Fair Work Commission (FWC)
titled Paracetamol and ibuprofen supply pharmaceutical benefits also extended to a neighbourhood because the evidence presented
combination analgesics. from a free-standing house shop and provided a list of general conclusively proved a reduction
The new offering reviews the in Erina, proposing running a merchandise stocked by the store. in penalty rates would increase
evidence supporting the efficacy pharmacy from the location as After considering evidence about employment rates across Australia
and tolerability of paracetamol and part of a larger business supplying whether customers would do their and sustain economic growth.
ibuprofen combination analgesics, groceries and other domestic items. weekly shopping at the proposed The union group strongly opposes
with the Guild saying pharmacists In 2016 the Australian Community business, McCabe ruled there was a the ruling and has threatened to
play an integral role in assessing a Pharmacy Authority recommended distinction between a supermarket request a review of the move which
patients pain - visit myCPD.org.au. that the application not be and a neighbourhood store, saying is scheduled to see Sunday penalty
approved, and Seed sought review I am not satisfied the applicants rates reduced from 01 Jul.
of that decision, with details of the business is properly characterised Zimmerman said the Association
Irish pharmacy crisis ruling published last week. as a supermarket. would be working with its members
LIMITATIONS on pharmacy The Tribunal heard evidence Accordingly he set aside the initial and legal providers to strongly
practice in Ireland are leading to that Seed had obtained decision by the Authority, instead defend the FWC decision and
a significant shortage of qualified development approval to conduct recommending to the Secretary ensure the changes to Sunday
pharmacists who want to work in a neighbourhood shop with an of the Department of Health penalty rates are implemented
community pharmacy. ancillary dispensary, but the key that the application to supply from 1 July 2017.
The Irish Pharmacy Union issue relates to item 212(b) of the pharmaceutical benefits for the Any applications for judicial
hosted its annual conference last Australian Community Pharmacy proposed premises situated in Erina review will be made after the FWC
weekend, with spokesperson Authority Rules which states that on the Central Coast of NSW be issues orders on the transition for
Caitriona ORiordan saying there pharmacy premises must not be approved. the Sunday penalty rate reduction,
is evidence that young qualified directly accessible by the public The full decision can be accessed which is expected to happen later
pharmacists are either not entering from a supermarket. by CLICKING HERE. this month.
community pharmacy or are The pharmacist testified
leaving the profession...we know that rather than operating a
IT MAKES SENSE
that one major off-putting factor is pharmacy within a supermarket,
excessive and increasing levels of he was instead operating a
administration and bureaucracy, single integrated business
IF YOU DISPENSE
coupled with a perception that supplying, among other things,
their professional skills are pharmaceutical benefits, and that
underutilised in comparison to the entire business including the
their colleagues in other countries. pharmacy was accessed from
ORiordan cited the example of outside the building through a
the UK where pharmacists are
allowed to prescribe for minor
ailments, as well as in Canada US growth slowing
where pharmacists are allowed PRESCRIPTION medicines
to monitor patients with chronic spending in America grew 4.8% in
illnesses and renew or adjust their 2016 to US$323 billion - less than
prescriptions. half the growth rate of the previous
Community practice is no longer two years, according to a new
attractive to young pharmacy report from QuintilesIMS.
graduates, who are frustrated The company said new medicines
that their knowledge and skills are introduced since 2014 continue to
not properly utilised by a system drive at least half of total spending
that fails to recognise them...this growth as clusters of innovative
problem will, if not addressed, have treatments for cancer, autoimmune
serious ramifications, not just for
community pharmacy, but for the
wider community, ORiordan said.
diseases, HIV, multiple sclerosis
and diabetes become accessible to
patients.
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