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Queensland Government
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Queensland Health

Pharmacy

Queensland Health offers employment opportunities for hospital pharmacists in clinical or management roles in a range of settings from major hospitals in large cities to smaller hospitals in rural areas.

The role of a hospital pharmacist may include:

  • Working with doctors and other hospital staff to ensure quality use of medicines throughout the hospital
  • Working in specialist areas such as oncology, cardiology, mental health
  • Dispensing medicines and formulating special medicines
  • Educating patients in relation to medicines and their use
  • Liaison with community-based health professionals to achieve continuity in medication management between hospital and home
  • Involvement in clinical trials and research of new medicines
  • Involvement in patient safety initiatives including drug use evaluation
  • Hospital in the Home initiatives
  • Managing pharmacy services

Requirements to practice

Individuals wishing to practice as a pharmacist in Australia are required to be registered with thePharmacy Board of Australia (from July 1, 2010).

To be eligible for registration as a pharmacist you need to complete a pharmacist qualification and undertake a year of supervised practical training.
Pharmacists registered in New Zealand are eligible to apply for registration to practice under mutual recognition legislation.

For further information on registration, please visit the: Pharmacy Board of Australia.

Overseas trained pharmacists

The Australian Pharmacy Council (APC) assists overseas trained pharmacists in obtaining registration as a pharmacist in Australia.

All overseas trained pharmacists are required to complete either of the following two processes:

Stream A – the process will remain the same as the current process for holders of the qualifications from countries whose pharmacy courses and standards of practice have not yet been recognised by the Council of Pharmacy Registering Authorities (COPRA).

Stream B – the process will apply to holders of qualifications from certain countries, whose accredited pharmacy courses and standards of practice have been recognised by COPRA.

Currently, those countries whose pharmacy courses and standards of practice have been recognised by COPRA are:

For further information please visit the Australian Pharmacy Council or contact APC on: +61-2-6247 5088.

Australian Pharmacy Council (APC)
PO Box 269, Civic Square
ACT  2608 Australia.