The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia is pushing for chemists to have the right to prescribe medications. There is no way this will happen, however. The pharmaceutical body which represents 75 percent of Australian pharmacists claims chemists know more than doctors about new drugs. Considering doctors purchase all the latest journals and publications on medicine this statement is untrue.
Considering chemists were given the right to provide sick notes for employees to give to their employers and they didn't give the notes when asked, gaining presciption writing privileges would not be acted upon - unless of course there is big money in it.
The Pharmaceutical Society is asking the Government to fund a training program so chemists can advise consumers on asthma, diabetes and tobacco. This would be a waste. When you ask for advice about the simplest of things they seem to give very simplistic answers. Comments they give when they sell items is certainly not academic in nature.
It is ridiculous for chemists to make a decision on extending heart medication to patients, for example. If someone has a heart attack in the street you don't call a chemist. General Practitioners will "fight like crazy" to protect the right to prescribe. In the hands of a pharmacist it would surely be a licence to print money. And what about addictive medications? People will go pharmacy shopping to get these drugs.
Considering chemists were given the right to provide sick notes for employees to give to their employers and they didn't give the notes when asked, gaining presciption writing privileges would not be acted upon - unless of course there is big money in it.
The Pharmaceutical Society is asking the Government to fund a training program so chemists can advise consumers on asthma, diabetes and tobacco. This would be a waste. When you ask for advice about the simplest of things they seem to give very simplistic answers. Comments they give when they sell items is certainly not academic in nature.
It is ridiculous for chemists to make a decision on extending heart medication to patients, for example. If someone has a heart attack in the street you don't call a chemist. General Practitioners will "fight like crazy" to protect the right to prescribe. In the hands of a pharmacist it would surely be a licence to print money. And what about addictive medications? People will go pharmacy shopping to get these drugs.
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