Threats And Weaknesses In Preventive Care Model, Australia

Main Category: Pharmacy / Pharmacist
Article Date: 03 Sep 2009 - 1:00 PDT

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The need to expand pharmacy's preventive health-care involvement is clear and while the strengths and opportunities for the community pharmacy model are not hard to see, not so obvious are some of the serious weaknesses and threats of that model. This issue will be addressed by Phill Woods during one of the sessions of the Professional Practice stream at the Pharmacy Australia Congress in Sydney from 15-18 October. Mr Woods will argue that rational planning of an expanded path to preventive healthcare activities and business highlights the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for both the pharmacy, and more importantly, for the people who staff the pharmacy He says it also highlights the likely synergies and barriers that surround pharmacies and pharmacists, and their 'good idea' in applying a preventive care model in the pharmacy. In his address, titled Practical Applications of Preventative Health Care to Pharmacy, Mr Woods will argue that these weaknesses and treats must be acknowledged and overcome before the profession and practice of pharmacy in preventative healthcare can grow. "This task is a leadership task, and the most important location for this leadership activity is within the pharmacy itself." Mr Woods says.

"After all, the profession as a whole is only the collective representation of its parts." Mr Woods, is a registered pharmacist and academic at the School of Pharmacy, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Queensland.

He has had nearly 30 years in pharmacy practice ownership, both in the hospital and community sectors, prior to joining the university where his teaching areas are in pharmacy practice and pharmacy management and his primary research interests lie in the development of (business) management competencies and skills for Australian pharmacists.

He will be one of the line-up of top presenters at PAC who help to make the Congress the pre-eminent pharmacy event of the year. Under the theme Securing Your Practice Advantage, the Congress this year is being held at the Sydney Hilton.

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Pharmaceutical Society of Australia

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