Outline
Prescribing by pharmacists is an established component of practice in the United Kingdom. In Australia, non-medical prescribing has been successfully extended to dentists, nurse practitioners, midwives, podiatrists and optometrists applying different prescribing models. Yet, as medicines experts, pharmacists don’t have prescribing rights in Australia. Join Ravi Sharmi, prescribing pharmacist from the UK in this interactive evening as he describes the UK model of prescribing and the learnings that can applied to Australia. According to PSA president Dr Shane Jackson, prescribing by pharmacist is imminent and this serves to be a timely platform for pharmacists to come together, learn and discuss what the future of pharmacist prescribing in Australia may look like.
Speaker
Ravi Sharma is the National Clinical Lead for Clinical Pharmacy and Genomics for the National Health Service (NHS) in England while holding several honouree and advisory positions. His key role has been focussed on the development of integrated/collaborative and innovative roles for pharmacists. He has been responsible for developing new roles of pre-registration, junior and senior pharmacist roles and linking this work into local and national workforce development strategies. He has published several articles in reputable journals and is involved in several research projects around the impact of clinical pharmacy within primary care. Ravi continues to work as a prescribing pharmacist in a GP practice on a weekly basis. More recently, received a scholarship by the NHS to complete Masters in Genomic Medicines at Imperial College London and has just been awarded fellowship by the Faculty of UK Clinical Informatics.
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PSA thanks University of Sydney for the use of their venue for this activity.