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 of Professional Pharmacy Products and Services
- After Hours Pharmacy Services
- Biosimilar Medicines
- Brand Substitution and Generic Medicines
- 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
- COVID-19 Point-of-Care Testing
- 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
- Infant Formula
- Internet/Distance/Mail Order Supply of Medicines
- Labelling of Medicines
- Medical Practitioners and other health professionals dispensing
- Medicinal Cannabis
- 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
- 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
- Vaccination in Community Pharmacy
- Voluntary Assisted Dying
- Walk in Centres
Page last updated on: 02 November 2021