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PSA national president Associate Professor Fei Sim reflects on the profession’s achievements in 2024 and looks forward to another 12 months of change in 2025, with the AJP Podcast

Speaking with AJP Podcast presenter Carlene McMaugh, Sim described 2024 as a year of two halves. 

The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) president noted that while there were a number of key successes for the pharmacy profession over the last 12 months, the first half of the year was an uncertain time for pharmacists (1 min 48).

However, she said the signing of the Eighth Community Pharmacy Agreement (8CPA) and the PSA’s Strategic Agreement on Professional Pharmacist Practice, gave the profession cause of optimism in recent months. 

Topics discussed include: 

• The expansion of pharmacists’ scope of practice (2:53)
• The introduction of the Aged Care On-site Pharmacist Program (ACOP) (6:45)
• Lack of harmonisation over vaping reforms (11:25)
• Emerging areas of pharmacy practice (13:32)
• Medicine shortages continue (16:04)
• Pharmacists want to know that there is enough and adequate and appropriate remuneration for the work they do (17:19)
• Expectations for 2025 (23:46)
• 2025 will be another year of change for the profession (26:12)
• Pharmacists need to embrace the change, but also need to look after themselves (27:22)
• Pharmacy cannot afford any form of division or duplication going forward (30:54)

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