Pharmacist

Scope of Practice of a Pharmacist

The following services and/or acts are regarded to be acts specially pertaining to a pharmacist -

1. The provision of pharmaceutical care by taking responsibility for the patient's medicine-related needs and being accountable for meeting these needs, which shall include but not be limited to the following functions:
   1. evaluation of a patient's medicine-related needs by determining the indication, safety and effectiveness of the therapy;
   2. dispensing of any medicine or scheduled substance on the prescription of a person authorised to prescribe medicine;
   3. furnishing of information and advice to any person with regard to the use of medicine;
   4. determining patient compliance with the therapy and follow-up to ensure that the patient's medicine-related needs are being met; and
   5. the provision of pharmacist-initiated therapy;
2. the compounding, manipulation, preparation or packaging of any medicine or scheduled substance or the supervision thereof;
3. the manufacturing of any medicine or scheduled substance or the supervision thereof;
4. the purchasing, acquiring, importing, keeping, possessing, using, releasing, storage, packaging, repackaging, supplying or selling of any medicine or scheduled substance or the supervision thereof; and
5. the application for the registration of a medicine in accordance with the Medicines Act.

The scope of practice of a pharmacist is as follows:

1. the acts specially pertaining to the profession of a pharmacist as prescribed above;
2. the formulation of any medicine for the purposes of registration as a medicine;
3. the distribution of any medicine or scheduled substance;
4. the re-packaging of medicines;
5. the initiation and conducting of pharmaceutical research and development; and
6. the promotion of public health.