Third Agreement R&D

It was the goal of the Third Community Pharmacy Agreement R&D Program to identify research priority areas in community pharmacy service provision and to then fund projects with the greatest potential to deliver services with positive health and economic impacts to consumers and the health system.

The Pharmacy Guild of Australia developed research priorities for the program through an extensive consultation process with stakeholders and communication with the Department of Health and Ageing. The priorities allowed the Guild and associated stakeholders to focus the funding to areas of most importance.  This allowed a large number and impressive variety of high quality projects to be funded through the program.

As an example, the priority areas for 2003 included:

• Quality use of medicines
• Continuing care across the health system
• Evaluation and further development of existing community pharmacy services and programs
• Development of new cognitive services
• Harm reduction for drug dependent people
• Facilitating change processes within pharmacy practice and the health system to deliver higher quality and cost effective pharmacy professional services

• Pharmacy workforce.

Funded Projects

This page provides a list of projects funded under the Third Agreement Research and Development Program. 

Project ID	Type of Grant	Title	Current Status	Chief Researcher
2005-522	Commissioned	Weight Management	Completed	Associate Professor Allan Everett
2005-501	Commissioned	Consumer Experiences, Needs and Expectations of Community Pharmacy	Completed	Dr Kathy Mott
2005-531	Commissioned	Consumer Access to Prescription Medicines	Completed	Wayne Kinrade
2005-532	Commissioned	Evaluation of the R&D Program	Completed	Professor Rosemary Calder
2001-008	Investigator Initiated	Woundcare benchmarking in community pharmacy - Piloting a QA indicator development	Completed	Dr Julie Stokes
2001-011	Investigator Initiated	Development and evaluation of a computerised system for the provision and documentation of community pharmacists' cognitive services	Completed	Professor Greg Peterson
2001-028	Investigator Initiated	Pharmacy and general practice disease management collaboration	Completed	Reitai Minogue
2001-036	Investigator Initiated	Community pharmacists providing clinical services for dispensing doctors and depot pharmacies in rural Queensland - tele-pharmacy	Unpublished	Dr Lisa Nissen
2001-041	Investigator Initiated	Educating community pharmacists to provide quality advice and information to consumers via the internet	Completed	Professor Chris Silagy
2001-049	Investigator Initiated	Enhancing the value of pharmacists through augmented competency standards and targeted professional practice standards	Completed	Bill Kelly
2001-052	Investigator Initiated	Mentor support program	Completed	Leone Coper
2001-054	Investigator Initiated	The economics of pharmaceutical services for methadone services in a public clinic and community pharmacies	Unpublished	Professor Bruce Sunderland
2001-055	Investigator Initiated	Hypertension: Improving patient compliance and clinical outcomes through community pharmacist managed care	Completed	Dr Jeffery Hughes
2001-056	Investigator Initiated	Reference data base of Australia's community pharmacies: analysis of national survey	Completed	Con Berbatis
2001-064	Investigator Initiated	Case conferences and care planning - Collaboration between community pharmacists and general practitioners	Completed	Dr Dr Tim Chen
2001-070	Investigator Initiated	An investigation into business and professional facilitators for change for the pharmacy profession in light of the Third Guild/Government Agreement	Completed	Professor Charlie Benrimoj
2001-072	Investigator Initiated	Professional pharmacy services to private hospitals	Completed	Rebekah Moles
2001-074	Investigator Initiated	Pharmacy Asthma Action Plan - Pharmacists receiving remuneration for addressing the issues for people with asthma in the community	Completed	Dr Sinthia Bosnic- Anticevich
2001-075	Investigator Initiated	An integrated model for disease state management (DSM) in diabetes: collaboration of the community pharmacist and GP in continuity of care	Completed	Associate Professor Ines Krass
2001-501	Commissioned	Pharmacy workforce supply and demand 2000-2010	Completed	Dr David Gadiel
2001-502	Commissioned	Cost benefit analysis of pharmacist only and pharmacy medicines and a risk based evaluation of the standards	Completed	Professor Charlie Benrimoj
2002-004	Investigator Initiated	Ensuring the appropriateness of topical over-the-counter antifungal agents for clients with self-diagnosed vaginal thrush	Completed	Peter Tenni
2002-005	Investigator Initiated	Customised education programs for patients with Diabetes Mellitus - Use of Structured Questionnaires and Education Modules	Completed	Jeffery Hughes
2002-009	Investigator Initiated	Rural community pharmacists integrating care for people with complex health needs	Completed	Dr Lisa Nissen
2002-013	Investigator Initiated	Improving the quality, effectiveness and sustainability of smoking cessation services, delivered through community pharmacies	Completed	Professor Andrew Gilbert
2002-020	Investigator Initiated	Developing a sustainable Pharmacy Support Network to address geographical issues associated with quality use of medicines	Completed	Fiona Kelly
2002-022	Investigator Initiated	Pharmacy-based program to tackle coronary heart disease in the Australian community.	Completed	Professor Greg Peterson
2002-024	Investigator Initiated	A community pharmacist delivered therapeutics outcome monitoring service for hyperlipidemia	Completed	Dr Parisa Aslani
2002-026	Investigator Initiated	An integrated service, initiated by community pharmacists, for the prevention of osteoporosis	Completed	Dr Susan Taylor
2002-027	Investigator Initiated	A community pharmacy based anticoagulant management service	Completed	Dr Andrew McLachlan
2002-028	Investigator Initiated	From hospital to community: a multidisplinary "continuity of care" model for cardiovascular patients involving community pharmacists	Completed	Dr Tim Chen
2002-504	Commissioned	Review of DMMR software	Completed	Wayne Kinrade
2002-507	Commissioned	The value of pharmacist professional services in the community setting	Completed	Dr Libby Roughhead
2002-508	Commissioned	Community Pharmacy Research Support Centre	Completed	Professor Carol Armour
2002-516	Commissioned	Workforce and career path options for pharmacy assistants	Completed	Wayne Kinrade
2002-518	Commissioned	Pharmacy Diabetes Care Program	Completed	Associate Professor Ines Krass
2002-519	Commissioned	Effectiveness and cost effectiveness of Dose Administration Aids	Completed	Professor Michael Roberts
2003-005	Investigator Initiated	Improving medication management of palliative care patients: enhancing the role of community pharmacists	Completed	Professor Roger Nation
2003-007	Investigator Initiated	Quantification of facilitators to accelerate uptake of cognitive pharmaceutical services (CPS) in community pharmacy	Completed	Professor Charlie Benrimoj
2003-008	Investigator Initiated	Asthma self-management in the community: pharmacists facilitating empowerment of patient asthma self-management practices through collaboration	Completed	Dr Sinthia Bosnic- Anticevich
2003-010	Investigator Initiated	3D* Labels (Dandenong Division of General Practice)	Completed	Graeme Sweet
2003-013	Investigator Initiated	Medication management and education of osteoarthritis patients: evaluation of a role for community pharmacists	Completed	Dr Tim Chen
2003-017	Investigator Initiated	Improving Australian's access to prescription medicines: Development of pharmacy practice models	Completed	Dr Tracey Bessell
2003-028	Investigator Initiated	Collaboration between CP & mental health care practitioners	Completed	Dr Paula Whitehead
2003-504	Commissioned	Community Pharmacy Medication Incident and Reporting Management System (CPMIRMS) (PROMISe)	Completed	Professor Greg Peterson
2003-519	Commissioned	Evaluation of Clinical Interventions within Community Pharmacy (PROMISe II)	Completed	Professor Greg Peterson
2003-524	Commissioned	Facilitating quality use of medicines between hospital and community (Med-E-Support)	Completed	Professor Greg Peterson
2003-526	Commissioned	Pharmacy Asthma Care Program	Completed	Professor Carol Armour
2003-530	Commissioned	Change management and community pharmacy	Completed	Distinguished Professor Dexter Dunphy
2004-503	Commissioned	The role of pharmacy in immunisation	Completed	Professor Joan Dawes
2004-509	Commissioned	Pharmacy Continence Care Program	Completed	Professor Rosemary Calder
2004-511	Commissioned	Pharmacy Cardiovascular Health Care Model	Completed	Professor Greg Peterson
2004-526	Commissioned	Evaluation of HMR Program	Completed	John Schwartzkoff
2004-532	Commissioned	Development, Implementation and Evaluation of Funding Model Options for the Dispensing of Pharmacotherapies for Opioid Dependence in Community Pharmacy (Addiction Care 1)	Completed	Wayne Kinrade
2004-534	Commissioned	Dispensing and Monitoring of Schedule 8 and Schedule 4 (with dependency properties) Drugs (Addiction Care 2)	Completed	Chris Lynton-Moll
2004-536	Commissioned	Effectiveness and cost effectiveness of Dose Administration Aids - phase 3 (DAA phase 3)	Completed	Professor Michael Roberts
92001-01	Commissioned	Evaluation of the Quality Care Pharmacy Program	Completed	John Chapman
92002-04	Commissioned	Evaluation of the Medicine Information for consumers (MIC) program	Completed	Murray Benton

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