Professional guidelines

These guidelines provide advice to pharmacists on process issues, desired behaviours, and how they may best fulfill their duties and responsibilities. They are not definitive statements of correct procedure.

• Pharmacists performing clinical interventions
• Staged supply services
• QUMAX Program (an introduction to cultural orientation for participating pharmacists)

Medication management

• Home medicines review services (October 2011 – Acrobat file)
• Residential medication management reviews and quality use of medicines services (October 2011 – Acrobat file)
• Dose Administration Aids Program
• Concordance assessments (March 1999)

Aboriginal health

• Pharmacy services to Aboriginal and Islander health services
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health (July 2001)

Other guidelines (member login may be required)

• Guidance for pharmacists using internet and social media (December 2011)
• Issuing certificates for absence from work  (Joint guidelines by PSA and the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, October 2010)
• Consumer medicine information and the pharmacist (January 2007)
• Providing medicines information to patients (July 1996)
• PBS brand substitution (July 2004)
• Employment of other health practitioners in pharmacy (March 2000)
• Managing pharmacy systems for quality and safety (November 2002)
• Services to people with impaired vision (March 1999)
• Providing opioid pharmacotherapy services (July 2004)
• Providing opioid pharmacotherapy services – sample agreement form (Word format)
• Pharmacists’ relationship with the pharmaceutical industry (July 2002)
• Dispensing practice guidelines (April 1997)