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Essential Information

Offered:

  • SP1, 2010
  • SP2, 2010
  • SP3, 2010 (TBA)

Core Unit for:

Not a core unit

Elective Unit for:

Assessment:

  • Assignment 40%
  • Online discussion 10%
  • Examination 50%

Pre-Requisites:

None

UNIT 601: PHARMACY PRACTICE AND PLANNING


Overview

Pharmacy practice and planning provides a conceptual framework for managing, planning and designing a pharmacy and associated pharmacy operating procedures, with consideration given to the business, regulatory and professional requirements. The unit examines the operational designs utilising a variety of available resources and systems. It investigates the physical layout for optimal delivery of goods and services.

The unit is designed to draw on your personal experiences from a pharmacy, and to apply the knowledge acquired from the unit material, to the day-to-day operations of your pharmacy practice.

Aims

After studying this unit you should be able to:

  • describe the key regulatory requirements of operating a pharmacy in Australia
  • identify areas of professional standards, their sources and their application in Australian pharmacies
  • describe key quality management aspects applicable to Australian pharmacies
  • apply selected operational tools in pharmacy inventory management and forecasting
  • critique physical layouts in meeting the requirements in pharmacy operations
  • outline key aspects of planning a pharmacy service and designing a pharmacy premises
  • describe an effective tender process to implement a pharmacy plan.

Topics

  • Introduction to the business of pharmacy
  • Regulatory aspects of pharmacy practice
  • Professional standards in pharmacy
  • The pharmacy operation
  • Managing quality and risk in pharmacy
  • Inventory management and forecasting in pharmacy
  • Pharmacy layout
  • Pharmacy planning
  • Pharmacy design
  • The tender process

Unit Chair and Study Guide Author

Mr Bill Suen
BPharm, BHealth Administration, MBA, MPS

Bill is a graduate of The Victorian College of Pharmacy before obtaining other post graduate qualifications in management by part-time, off-campus learning. He has a wide range of senior management experience in both the public and the private sectors. Key pharmacy management positions held include General Manager (Slade Pharmacy and Medical Group), Director of Pharmacy Service (Western Health Care Network), Pharmacy Manager (Terry White Chemist, The Glen). Outside pharmacy, Bill has had corporate management experience as the General Manager of PJA Computer Consultants Pty Ltd, a leading pathology and clinical software company in Australia. Bill has established and taught in postgraduate pharmacy management and pharmaceutical sales programs at Monash University. He is currently a Victorian councillor of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, a practising community pharmacy proprietor and the principal consultant of Pharmaceutical Business Solutions Pty Ltd.