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Development projects
The Pharmacy Council undertakes several projects each year to respond to emerging regulatory and pharmacy practice trends.

Accreditation standards and system 

Development of an accreditation system to ensure pharmacy education providers and their programmes support the delivery of safe and competent health practitioners.

 

Pharmacist competence standards 

Refresh of professional competence standards for the pharmacist scope of practice.

 

Te Tiriti o Waitangi and health equity 

Development initiatives to enable the Pharmacy Council to give greater effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi in regulatory practice and to support the achievement of health equity.

 

Joint prescriber regulatory tools 

Exploring the development of nationally standardised regulatory tools with other responsible authorities, to support safer prescribing across prescribing professions.

 

Quality improvement project plan

Overview of initiatives Medsafe and Council are undertaking in their role as regulators to protect the health and safety of the public.

 

Environmental scan

Commissioned literature review to understand measures characterising risk of harm and contribution to health care delivery by community pharmacy in Aotearoa New Zealand.