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Bigger Role for NZ Pharmacists Worries Doctors
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Whether it be New Zealand, Canada or Australia, pharmacists are facing almost identical problems, particularly in their relationsships with GP's. Any attempt at role expansion by pharmacists is aggressively attacked by GP's as intruding on "their turf" and they go public with a prepared litany that appears to have been written by one person for global media distribution. It is such a similar message country to country, one wonders what the GP's really have to fear. The following story appeared in the New Zealand Herald:
"Pharmacists' calls for more healthcare responsibility could have dangerous consequences if patients stopped seeing their GP, the head of the Medical Association has warned.
Peter Foley's comments follow the Pharmacy Guild's push for more funding, as part of a review of its district health board contracts, to act as a first point of contact in administering some health care.
Health Minister Tony Ryall said this week the Government was in talks with pharmacists about them playing a bigger role in tending to the sick.
Pharmacy Guild chief executive Annabel Young said pharmacists wanted to be given the right to help patients in managing chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and asthma through health counselling and guidance on prescribed medicine use. They also wanted to be able to carry out medicine-use reviews, which involve monitoring patients' use of prescribed medication to ensure better results and cut the costs of unused medication.
Other services included nicotine replacement programmes and providing the emergency contraceptive pill."
Source: nzherald.co.nz
For more on this story visit:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10570611
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