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Pharmacists Division GPO Box 1272, Melbourne VIC 8060 163 Eastern Road, South Melbourne VIC 3205 Phone: 03 9695 8800 Fax: 03 9696 8904 Email: pharmacist@apesma.asn.au

	Pharmacists Division APESMA online petition The Pharmacists Division of APESMA is concerned that the Fifth Community Pharmacy Agreement is blocking the professional development of pharmacists and locked us into a dispensing-model of practise for the next five years. Sign the petition.
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PHARMACISTS' DIVISION

The objective of the Pharmacist Division is to ensure that employee community pharmacists are remunerated according to their qualifications, skills, responsibility and professional standing and that members have an effective and independent voice in all matters affecting their profession.

The Pharmacist Division of APESMA (PDA) represents employee community pharmacists practising in Australia. APESMA (Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers, Australia) is Australia’s pre-eminent industrial association for professionally qualified employees with some 25,000 members.

Until 1997, the Pharmacists Division was known as the Salaried Pharmacists Association, which was established in 1927.

Member Services

As a member of the Association you can access services that enable you to get the most out of your employment as a community pharmacist, including:

• Comprehensive workplace advice and representation to help you get the best deal from your employers
• Information and advice on market rates.
• Assistance with your employment contract
• Advice on awards
• A bi-monthly pharmacist newsletter
• Discounts to save you time and money. Some of these include: insurance, accommodation, mobile phone plans, share brokerage, home loans and credit cards.

Issues we are involved in to help your career

• Review of the State Pharmacy Acts
• Implementation of the final recommendation of the National Competition Policy Review of Pharmacy.
• The fourth agreement between community pharmacy and the Federal Government to commence from July 2005.
• Pursuing direct payment to consultant pharmacists for medication management reviews.
• Pharmacy workforce issues – members of industry working group.
• Members of the Review of Pharmacy Competency Standards Working Group.
• Members of QCPP evaluation project steering group.
• Improving your award which sets your minimum terms and conditions of employment

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