Presentation delivered by AdPha President Tom Simpson at FIP2025 highlighting AdPha’s journey since rebranding, outlining its commitment to “innovation for the individual” by recognising pharmacists’ expertise, building workforce insights, anticipating future challenges, and reshaping professional learning to strengthen both individual careers and the pharmacy profession as a whole.
This month, AdPha’s policy and advocacy team engaged with government, health stakeholders and the TGA on issues including PBS access in hospitals, pharmacists’ prescribing scope, medicines shortages, and reforms to medicinal cannabis.
Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) stands with hospital pharmacists and technicians taking protected industrial action today in the NT.
In the last month we backed the Albanese Government’s PBS co-payment cut to $25 from January 2026, met with MPs nationwide to advance workforce, scope of practice, and hospital funding priorities while driving progress on palliative care PBS listings, community access to clozapine, and digital medicines information sharing.
In welcoming WA Government’s expansion of community pharmacy care, AdPha urges focus on the benefits that come with hospital collaborative prescribing models.
The successful scientific abstracts span the country and practice areas ahead of AdPha’s blockbuster conference in November
AdPha leads advocacy with recent meetings with Health Ministers in Queensland and the Northern Territory, highlighting the need for workforce investment and improved pharmacy services.
The updated AdPha General Medicine Standards lead the latest issue of Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research (JPPR)
Applications are now open for four new travel scholarships to attend Medicines Management 2025
