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Do Rural Pharmacists Enjoy Greener Pastures?
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia has commissioned RhED Consulting Pty Ltd, in collaboration with Health Workforce Queensland and Kristine Battye Consulting Pty Ltd, to undertake a large national rural research project. [Click here to read the complete project overview.]
The objectives of the project are to:
- Track the Rural Pharmacy Workforce
- Identify the origins, attractors, detractors, barriers and drivers of pharmacists to rural practice, and
- Identify the role that existing rural programs have on the retention of rural pharmacists.
Chief Investigator and Project Manager :
Dr. Janie Smith, Director RhED Consulting Pty Ltd
For more information please contact Robyn Lynch, Assistant to
Dr. Janie Smith.
How can you contribute?
If you are a rural pharmacist, a student, a pharmacy manager or an academic pharmacist – we seek your advice and input into these important studies. Please click on the title which best describes your role for further information.
Surveys
All surveys have been approved by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia and the Rural Pharmacists Workforce Survey was AAA rated - Approval No. 752
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Pre-Reigstration Incentive Allowance Survey - for Pharmacy Owners/Managers
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Rural Pharmacy Placement Allowance Survey - for Pharmacy Students
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Rural Pharmacy Scholarship Survey- for Pharmacy Scholarship Holders
Consultation Process
RhED Consulting will also be conducting an extensive national consultation process between April and August 2009. We invite you to participate in one of the focus groups or interviews being conducted across the country and at key rural events.
If you are a rural pharmacist who has received and completed the Rural Pharmacists Workforce Survey, either online or by mail, and feel you would like to participate in a focus group, or be interviewed as part of this consultation process, please contact RhED with your contact details.
We will also be undertaking telephone interviews for those remote pharmacists who are unable to attend a workshop but are keen to participate in the study.
Project Consultants
Click here for information about the Project Consultants
Publications
An international literature review on the feasibility of conducting a longitudinal tracking system to track students following graduation and throughout their professional careers is being currently undertaken.
Another literature review is being undertaken on the drivers, attractors, distractors and barriers to rural pharmacy practice.
The will be included in the final report to the Pharmacy Guild of Australia in March 2010.