PGA Newsletter – Vol.2 No.15 26th Apr.,2012

Guild and NACCHO working together

The National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) and the Pharmacy
Guild of Australia have developed a joint position paper aimed at maintaining 
and improving access to important medicines for Aboriginal and Torres Strait 
Islander people. 

As partners in the introduction and ongoing support and delivery of the Section 100 Remote Aboriginal Health 
Services Program (s100 RAHSP), the Guild and NACCHO have prepared the paper to outline the essential features 
that need to be maintained, as well as practical ways to assist the program to reach its full potential, consistent with 
the Government’s commitment to Closing the Gap.

The paper has been produced in response to the report from the Inquiry 
by the Senate Community Affairs References Committee into ‘the effectiveness of special arrangements for 
the supply of Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) medicines to remote Aboriginal Health Services’ delivered in
October 2011.

Both organisations hope that the Government’s response to the Inquiry will provide the opportunity to review 
the Section 100 Remote Aboriginal Health Services Program (s100 RAHSP) in light not only of the Senate report, 
but also of the numerous reviews and evaluations which have preceded it

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PGA Newsletter – Vol.2 No.15 26th Apr.,2012