SHPA has welcomed the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Budget 2022-23, handed down by Chief Minister and Treasurer Andrew Barr, which features $390 million of new healthcare investment across hospital care, primary care and systems capacity.
SHPA has called for both wider access to oral COVID-19 antivirals to combat rising COVID-19 hospitalisations amid a constrained hospital workforce, and an additional vaccine booster for healthcare workers for their protection.
SHPA's annual thought leadership report Pharmacy Forecast Australia 2022 is building momentum in its second year, expanding to 43 recommendations on the future of Hospital Pharmacy and featuring new themes around wellbeing, funding and sustainability as the country emerges from the worst stressors of the COVID-19 pandemic.
SHPA is marking National NAIDOC Week 2022 by highlighting newly published national research into care for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander inpatients, as the organisation works to embed training on culturally safe care across all members’ annual education.
SHPA has welcomed and congratulated the University of Tasmania on its launch of the three-year Fast-Track Bachelor of Pharmacy with Honours degree.
SHPA has welcomed a record $9.78 billion investment over six years into hospitals and healthcare workforce announced by Queensland Treasurer Cameron Dick MP, and calls for investments into the Hospital Pharmacy workforce in Queensland Health to meet and service the additional capacity.
SHPA has welcomed funding measures for hospital and health workers in New South Wales Budget 2022-23, while warning patient safety is at risk if more isn’t done to lift the state’s pharmacist-to-patient ratio, which remains the lowest in the country.
SHPA has welcomed the National Cabinet’s announcement that the National Partnership on COVID-19 Response will be further extended by three months to 31 December 2022, and commitment to review how Australia’s hospitals and healthcare system is funded.
SHPA congratulates Mark Butler MP on his appointment as Minister for Health and Aged Care, as part of a significantly expanded Labor health ministry following the recent Federal Election, while reiterating the importance of improving equitable access to medicines as a health care priority.
SHPA congratulates the Australian Labor Party and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on winning the 2022 Federal Election, while urging the incoming government to continue to engage with the expert Hospital Pharmacy sector in implementing key election commitments to health.
SHPA welcomes the Western Australian Government’s 2022-23 Budget but cautions the announced $1.3 billion expenditure in hospitals and pandemic preparedness will have limited impact without developing Australia's current and future workforce of Hospital Pharmacists.
SHPA welcomes release of Report into the Inquiry of Health outcomes and access to health and hospital services in rural, regional and remote New South Wales (the Report), urging the NSW Government to enact all recommendations in the Report and for the Australian Government to provide commensurate support where identified.
