health professions licensing authority

pharmacy board

• membership
• role
• code, policies and forms

membership

• Chair - Ms Bhavini Patel
• Prof Member – Ms Shelley Crowther
• Prof Member – Mr Peter Clarke
• Public Member – Ms Judith Dikstein
• Public Member – Mr Lachlan Hayward Miller
• Prof Member - Mr Sotirios Battalis
• Prof Member - Mr Andrew Tooms

role

The Pharmacy Board of the Northern Territory is a statutory body responsible for ensuring the public is protected through the regulation of pharmacists registered in the Northern Territory.

The Pharmacy Board carries out this mandate by:

• Ensuring that all pharmacists have received educational preparation to an agreed national standard;
• Dealing with issues of conduct and taking any disciplinary action as required;
• Administering the framework under which impaired pharmacists can be rehabilitated without necessarily losing their license to practice;

• Assisting to improve pharmacists performance should it be found to be below accepted professional standards, and
• Ensuring that all pharmacists either currently registered or intending to be registered are competent and fit to practise.

The Health Professions Licensing Authority (HPLA) provides a bureau service to the Pharmacy Board and carries out administrative duties as directed by it.

The objectives of the Health Practitioners Act 2004 (the Act) requires the Pharmacy Board to:

• Protect and promote the health and safety of the people of the Territory;
• Promote the highest standard of professional health care practice in the Territory;
• Determine the standards for registration and enrolment of health practitioners and for professional health care practice in the Territory, and
• Facilitate the continuing competence of health practitioners in the Territory.

pharmacy code

The Pharmacy Code is comprised of the General Policies and the Pharmacy Specific Policies listed below.

General Policies

Pharmacy Board Specific Policies

Note: Policies remain current until a review has been completed and the revised version available on the website

	Guidelines for use of automated dose packaging systems	PDF | DOC
	Entitlement to Registration Policy Pharmacy	PDF | DOC
	Mandatory Reference Material	PDF | DOC

The following policies have been endorsed by the Pharmacy Board and can be accessed via the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia website on www.psa.org.au

• Pharmaceutical Society of Australia Pharmacy Practice Handbook 2000
• Pharmaceutical Society of Australia Professional practice Standards 2002
• Pharmaceutical Society of Australia Standards for the Provision of Pharmacist Only and Pharmacy Medicines in Community Pharmacy
• Pharmaceutical Society of Australia Competency Standards 2003

The following policy has been endorsed by the Pharmacy Board and can be accessed via the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia website on www.shpa.org.au

• The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia Practice – Practice Standards

Registration Forms

	Application Form – Pharmacist	PDF | DOC
	Mutual Recognition & Trans Tasman Mutual Recognition Form	PDF | DOC