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Welcome to the May 2012 homepage edition of i2P-Information to Pharmacists. Rollo Manning has been having some time out having staples removed from the site of his open heart surgery.He is now at home recuperating in Darwin, having arrived home last Friday, beating a cold and hasty retreat from Canberra.We all wish him a speedy recovery and hopefully, he will be fit enough to contribute by next month.
This month, Pharmedia discusses the toll that is taken when someone complains about you to an authority without good cause. Well, the good news is that you can now take action to protect yourself if such a complaint is made, and that may even include action for defamation. Read about a recent case involving two doctors, with Mark Coleman drawing on personal experience to illustrate.

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Section 100 and Aboriginal Health

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Rollo Manning has experienced pharmacy practice from all sectors of the industry – retail, administrative, policy and remote Aboriginal practice. He spent 10 years with Glaxo Australia and was the first Director of Public Relations at the Pharmacy Guild National Secretariat in Canberra. He has also held the position of Pharmacy Policy Officer for Territory Health Services in Darwin. Rollo is currently a Consultant working in his own practice with remote Aboriginal communities, in Northern Australia.

A review of the Section 100 arrangements in the area of PBS supply to remote Aboriginal health services holds the key to improving the quality use of medicines and pharmacists involvement in Aboriginal health, according to I2P long time correspondent, Rollo Manning.
In a commentary on the recently released Discussion Paper calling for general comments Rollo has highlighted the fact that a large responsibility for QUM rests with the owners of the health services themselves which in the main is State and Territory Governments.

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“The poor quality of pharmacy services was there before the Commonwealth decided to pick up the cost through Section 100”, Manning says “It is not right to blame Section 100 for creating a situation that had been largely ignored up until that time”.

Rollo told I2P that he was introduced to a real “culture shock” in the Katherine Region when he first went out to a remote community health centre in 1997.

“It was just a shame that there was no evidence of pharmacists’ involvement and I just could not believe that the pharmacists in the past that had been responsible for the administration of the quality of patient care had ignored this area.” he says.

“All Section 100 did was change the way the medicines were funded – with the States and Territory governments being able to save money previously spent on PBS items.

“It did not mean they could abrogate their responsibility in making sure the Poisons Act was being adhered to but it seems there is still a long way to go in that regard.”, Rollo Manning says.

You can read his full commentary on the Discussion Paper by clicking here.

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