You’re discharged from hospital with some painkillers but aren’t sure if they’re safe to take with the heart medication you’ve been prescribed for years or the vitamins you take now and again. So you ask your GP. They recommend you see the pharmacist in the next consulting room for advice on how to safely manage all your medicines.
This is the future the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) wants to see. It wants the government to fund pharmacists to be a more permanent fixture in GP clinics – to be physically in the same building, as part of a multidisciplinary team.
