Community Pharmacy eCensus
September 4, 2012
This week the first major census of
community pharmacy in Australia
since 2006 gets underway.
The online census comprises
around 40 detailed questions.
The Guild is urging all community
pharmacies to take part in the
census because of the importance of
having up-to-date data on our
industry.
The availability of current data on
community pharmacy is an essential
ingredient of effective advocacy at
all levels of government.
The range of services provided by
community pharmacies is little
understood in some quarters, and it
is only through comprehensive,
current information that we can
reinforce the many benefits of
our community pharmacy model.
Through this week, most
pharmacies will automatically
receive an emailed invitation to take
part in the census.
They should receive an email which
has their census username and login
included.
When these pharmacies login to
the census, they will find the form
will have been prefilled with the
basic details and identification of the
pharmacy.
Where a pharmacy is not picked up
in our database for whatever reason,
pharmacy owners can go to
ecensus.guildlink.com.au and
request a username and password
which will be emailed to them.
In this case, the census form won’t
have any prefilled data and it will
create a new, blank record for them.
The Guild encourages anyone that
receives the invitation email to use it
as it will reduce the chance of
duplicate records.
The demands on the time of our
Members are great, and online
surveys are increasingly common.
But this is one online activity that
the Guild certainly hopes all of our
Members will find the time to
complete because of the benefit it
will ultimately bring to all.
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