HEALTH Minister Sussan Ley has outlined her vision for the future of Australian general practice, and the role pharmacists might play in it.
In a parliamentary speech last Tue Ley told the House of Representatives she was constantly being approached by younger doctors who want to trial some innovative methods of practice.
She said these "modern" GPs have told her "I'd like to have the pharmacist more involved in my general practice...where I live is a low socioeconomic area; I would like to try having a pharmacist here every day, helping people manage their medicines".
Ley said this is the type of thing that is "perfectly possible within the Health Care Homes model" which she contrasted with the current "very regimented, transaction based Medicare system".
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