Comments on: Pharmacy – are there jobs out there for pharmacists?

By: Minimum Wage

Minimum Wage — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 00:42:51 +0000

There are jobs out there for pharmacists in Australia, but they suck. Salaries will continue to go through the floor all while it takes an enormous amount of effort to study and get qualified! Australia is a country that truly rewards footballers and low IQ idiots, including public service photocopiers and losers with no skill or ability. I would recommend leaving Australia if you want a successful health career, go somewhere like America where poor people don’t get health care and qualified, intelligent people are rewarded for hard work – as it should be!!!!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 01 Nov 2015 06:00:29 +0000

Bachelor of Pharmacy degree holders can also work in Hospitals and Pharmaceutical companies.

By: Philippe

Philippe — Thu, 08 May 2014 17:52:29 +0000

Totally agree with the above sentiments about the issues with graduate numbers and employment. Sustainable graduate numbers in this and other professions such as physiotherapy, etc need to determined by government and funded accordingly. Only the number of needed places should be allowed in Universities as determined by demographic investigation.
For example in the State of Qld, in around the year 1980 there were 80 grads from one Uni (UQ) , in the year 2000 this had risen to about 120 from 1 Uni. In recent years this has risen to around 500 from 4 Unis – James Cook Uni (Townsville), UQ (Brisbane), QUT (Brisbane), and Griffith Uni (Gold Coast).
You don’t need to have a Ph.D. in Demographics to figure that the correct number should be around 200 to 250. To have double this number is unsustainable, unfair to many of the students studying the course, a waste of tax payers money funding the course, no good for the profession as a whole and just plain stupid.
So adjust the numbers and give quotas in places to each of the Uni’s seems the bleeding obvious to me,
(I work in the Industry as a Hospital Pharmacist but have worked in the past in Community Pharmacy as well having graduated in Pharmacy in the late 1970’s.)

By: Rollo Manning

Rollo Manning — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 08:03:06 +0000

There is no mention of Aboriginal health,
These are the worst off in terms of health status and are prescribed a lot of medicine of which they kniow very little.
There is a potential role for pharmacists working for Aboriginal Health Services in urban areas where the pharmacy is co-located on site and the pharmacist has a lot of interaction with allied health professionals including doctors and nurses. Also in remote Aboriginal health there is big scope if only the authorities would make the positions available. ATM there is no mention of pharmacists in any health workforce planning – why not you could well ask and should of Health Workforce Australia and the Pharmacy Guild = that illustrious body which claims to be all things about pharmacy practice.