This month, AdPha’s policy and advocacy team engaged with government, health stakeholders and the TGA on issues including PBS access in hospitals, pharmacists’ prescribing scope, medicines shortages, and reforms to medicinal cannabis.
In the last month we backed the Albanese Government’s PBS co-payment cut to $25 from January 2026, met with MPs nationwide to advance workforce, scope of practice, and hospital funding priorities while driving progress on palliative care PBS listings, community access to clozapine, and digital medicines information sharing.
SHPA welcomes the news that Western Australia has become the latest jurisdiction to launch real time prescription monitoring, a powerful clinical tool in the effort to curb the unsafe use of high-risk medicines such as opioids.
SHPA congratulates NSW Labor on winning Saturday’s 2023 State Election, at a pivotal time to build the specialised hospital pharmacy workforce in Australia’s most populous state.
SHPA has released its 2023 New South Wales State Election Priorities, calling on major parties, minor parties and independent candidates to end longstanding inequities to medicines access and access to hospital pharmacist workforce in New South Wales public hospitals.
The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA) has welcomed the expansion of funded Hospital Pharmacy Intern and Foundation Resident positions in rural and regional Western Australia as a shot in the arm for workforce sustainability and medicines safety in the vast state.
The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA) today congratulated the ACT Government on its successful go-live of the territory-wide Digital Health Record this past weekend in ACT hospitals.
