Three new professional pharmacy services have recently been considered and approved by the Pharmacy Programs and Services Advisory Committee (PPSAC) and the Minister for Health and Ageing.

These programs are funded under the 4th Community Pharmacy Agreement (CPA) by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing as part of the Better Community Healthprogram and include:
Diabetes Medication Assistance Service (DMAS) which will assess the broader introduction into a greater number of community pharmacies of the diabetes service investigated under the 3rd CPA Research and Development program;
Dose Administration Aids (DAAs) which will investigate the funding of medicine adherence devices from community pharmacies to eligible patients to assist in better medication management;
Medication Profiling which will investigate the funding of the provision of medication history profiles from community pharmacies to eligible patients to assist in better medication management and understanding.

A comprehensive set of Questions and Answers has been developed by the PPSAC to provide information about these new professional pharmacy services to pharmacists, consumers and other health professionals.