Outstanding pharmacist award

The Australian Patients Association is calling for nominations in its annual Health Industry Awards, including for the Most Outstanding Community Pharmacist.

The awards also recognise Most Outstanding GP, Most Outstanding Hospital, Most Outstanding Health Reporter and Most Outstanding Patient Innovation.

General Manager of the Australian Patients Association Jas Streten said community pharmacists played an integral role in the delivery of primary care to Australians.

“A large number of Australians seek day-to-day general health advice from pharmacists rather than going to a GP,” he said.

“The importance of community pharmacists is recognised in the comments patients have made in nominations from previous years.

“The recognition of their integral role in how people manage their life is reflected in comments like 'committed pharmacist who has served my family through a sick husband and sick children’, and 'places the well-being of his customers far above making a profit and has talked me out of buying unnecessary products'.

“Patients nominating community pharmacists is a way of recognising the time, effort and contribution each of them makes to people’s day-to day health quality of life.”