�Recruitment has begun for up to 800 pharmacies to participate in Stage 2 of the Diabetes Pilot
Program, implementing the Diabetes Medication Assistance Service (DMAS) inside their
community pharmacy.
Community pharmacies in both rural and metropolitan locations that meet the eligibility
requirements are able to take part. Selection volition be on a "number one in number one served" groundwork by
Pharmacy Access/Remoteness Index of Australia (PhARIA).
"An increasing issue of Australians are beingness diagnosed with diabetes every year, with an
estimated 275 people diagnosed every day. This is a huge business organisation for our health system and this
pilot continues to examine the role community apothecary's shop can make for," Kos Sclavos, National
President of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia said.
The DMAS is a professional pharmacy service designed to assist patients with indisposed controlled
type 2 diabetes to meliorate self-management of their condition through a series of in-pharmacy
consultations with a specially trained and credentialed pharmacist. It provides a cycle of
assessment, management and review in the disease state management of type 2 diabetes.
"Pharmacists are becoming more involved in assisting patients self-manage their illnesses and this
service complements management plans and team care arrangements established by a patient's
GP and support provided by other members of the diabetes care squad," Warwick Plunkett,
President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia aforementioned.
Participating pharmacies are mandatory to engage up to 14 eligible patients with poorly controlled
diabetes and provide them with 5 in-pharmacy consultations over a six-month full stop. The
pharmacists providing the service moldiness have undertaken training provided by the Pharmaceutical
Society of Australia (PSA) and credential by the Australian Association of Consultant Pharmacy
(AACP).
To register, visit the Professional Pharmacy Services website at http://www.guild.org.au/pps/. This site
includes more information about the eligibility criteria for both pharmacies and patients and
associated payments.
The Diabetes Pilot Program is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and
Ageing as part of the Better Community Health Initiative under the Fourth Community
Pharmacy Agreement and is managed by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia with the support of the
Pharmaceutical Society of Australia.
Pharmaceutical Society of Australia
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