Pharmacists integral to improve health outcomes for Australians The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) – Australia’s peak pharmacy body – has called on the Federal Government to implement six strategic measures in its 2021-22 Budget Submission that will enable pharmacists to significantly improve health outcomes for Australians. Among the recommendations is the proposal to revise aged care funding instruments and invest $197.8 million over four years to support residential aged care facilities in directly engaging pharmacists to reduce preventable harm caused by medicines. PSA National President Associate Professor Chris Freeman said the recent Royal Commission into Aged Care’s interim report was critical of medicine management in Australia’s aged care sector.