With hospitals and GP services under increasing pressure, pharmacists can do more to help. Patients need more options for quick and local access to healthcare for common ailments.

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What more can we do?

Pharmacists are already providing some routine healthcare services – they’d like to do more, and it would make a big difference to patients’ lives.

Travel Medicines

Supply and administration of medicines and vaccines

Vaccines

Supply and Administration of a full range of vaccines

Flu

Testing and antiviral treatment

Cholesterol

Monitoring and renewing prescriptions

Asthma

Renewing prescriptions

How it will help

Pharmacists are the most visited and accessible healthcare profession in Australia. Pharmacists already support 458 million patients each year, and they are trusted and trained to provide the community with more healthcare.

By providing early, point of care testing and support for common ailments pharmacists can:

  • Ease pressure on our doctors and nurses
  • Free up local GPs time and enable them to focus on more complex issues
  • Prevent unnecessary emergency department visits made when patients can’t access their GP
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Current Challenges

Our healthcare system is under extreme pressure, and patients in NSW are feeling the effects.

Research has found patients are facing significant challenges getting their everyday healthcare needs met.

36%

need to visit a GP monthly

36%

face longer than acceptable wait times to secure a GP appointment

20%

have been forced to use Hospital Emergency in the past three years because they couldn’t’ access a GP

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It’s even worse in the regions

45%

need to visit a GP monthly

17%

face longer than acceptable wait times to secure a GP appointment

27%

have been forced to use Hospital Emergency in the past three years because they couldn’t’ access a GP