Policies & Position Statements

This page contains the Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s policies and position statements on a range of issues.  Enquiries or comments can be directed to the Guild on 02 6270 1888.

Except where specified, the following links are to PDF documents.

• Access to Pharmacy Services by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
• Access to Community Pharmacy Services in Rural/Remote Australia
• Access to the Telehealth Initiative through Community Pharmacy
• Alcohol and health risks
• Advertising and Use of Brand Names in Training for pharmacy assistants
• Advertising of Professional Pharmacy Products and Services
• After Hours Pharmacy Services
• Biosimilar Medicines
• Brand Substitution and Generic Medicines 
• Cannabis Preparations and Derivatives
• Chemicals of Security Concern
• Community Pharmacy in Health and Medical Centres
• Community Pharmacy Services to assist People Living with a Disability 
• Consumer Medicines Information
• Complementary Medicines and Therapies
• Continuing Education within Community Pharmacy
• Counterfeit Medicines
• Development of Professional Services
• Digital Health
• Disease Screening and Condition Management in Community Pharmacy
• Distribution and Delivery of Pharmaceutical Benefits
• Diversity
• Donations of Medicines to Developing Countries
• Emergency Management  (or access the webpage version instead)
• Electronic Transfer of Prescriptions (eTP)
• Gifts and Incentives 
• GP Super Clinics
• Immunisation within community pharmacy
• Infant Formula
• Internet/Distance/Mail Order Supply of Medicines
• Labelling of Medicines
• Medical Practitioners and other health professionals dispensing
• Medicines and Medical Devices Recall
• Medicines Access Programs (MAP)
• Needle and Syringe Program
• Nurse Practitioners
• Opioid Dependence
• Packaging of Medicines
• Pharmacies not approved to supply Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme (PBS) Items (unapproved pharmacies) 
• Pharmacists in General Practice
• Pharmacy Data Security
• Pharmacy Ownership 
• Plastic Bags
• Provision of Absence from Work (Sick) Certificates by Pharmacists
• Quality (webpage)
• Reducing the diversion of pseudoephidrine-based products 
• Regulation of Medicines and Poisons
• Return of Unwanted Medicines to Community Pharmacies
• Returning of Short-Dated Stock
• Safety and Security in Pharmacy
• Sale of Optical Devices in Pharmacy
• Scheduling of Medicines
• Selective Prescription Supply
• Skin Penetration
• Sport and Medicines
• Stock Shortages of Pharmaceutical Benefits Schedule (PBS) Medicines
• Sunscreen Promotion
• Supply and Storage of Medicines
• Teeth Whitening in Pharmacy
• Therapeutic Product Endorsement
• Tobacco and smoking cessation in community pharmacy
• Use of Barcode Technology to assist with Dispensing
• Voluntary Assisted Dying
• Walk in Centres