2005 Winner

2004 Winner

Australian Winner 2005 Morgan & Rule Pharmacy

2005 Pharmacy of the Year State Winners

Australian Capital Territory Winner 2005 - Capital Chemist Chisholm

Queensland Winner 2005 - Garden City Amcal Chemist

South Australia Winner 2005 - Harrison's Chemworld Pharmacy

Victoria Winner 2005 - Morgan & Rule Pharmacy

Tasmania Winner 2005 - Health Information Lindisfarne

Western Australia 2005 -Margaret River Pharmacy

New South Wales Winner 2005 - Maddi' Parker Soul Pattinson Chemist

Annual Winner, 2004

Warnbro Fair Chemist, Western Australia

Staff of the Quality Care Pharmacy of the year 2004, Warnbro Fair Chemist, Western Australia

State Winners, 2004

New South Wales Winner 2004 Howle's Amcal Pharmacy, Tamworth

Queensland Winner 2004 Nambour Amcal Chemmart, Nambour

Tasmania Winner 2004 Wilkinson's Chemmart Pharmacy, Burnie

Victoria Winner 2004 Whittlesea Amcal Pharmacy, Whittlesea

South Australia Winner 2004 Fulllife Murray T. Martin Pharmacy, Mount Gambier

Australian Capital Territory Winner 2004 Lanyon Amcal Chemist, Conder

Previous Annual Winner, 2003

Maleny Amcal, QLD

From left, Glasshouse MP Carolyn Male, Graham Perl (Professional Relations Manager Pfizer Pty Ltd), Sam Duggan, Libby Malter, Amanda Mollee, Marek Malter, Member for Longman Mal Brough, at the presentation of the cheque for Quality Care Pharmacy of the Year 2003 to Maleny Amcal Pharmacy, Queensland.

New South Wales Winner 2003 Health Information Pharmacy

Western Australia Winner 2003 Albany Amcal Chemist

Tasmania Winner 2003 Dover Pharmacy

Victoria Winner 2003 Murray Fry Amcal Pharmacy

South Australia Winner 2003 Hilton Chemplus Pharmacy

Previous Annual Winner, 2002

Friendlies Chemist, Subiaco WA

Triumph as Pharmacy of the Year 2003

Perth-based Friendlies Chemist has won the prestigious Pfizer Quality Care Pharmacy of the Year Award and a cash prize of $10 000 in recognition of the excellence in Quality Care implemented in their pharmacy.

Sponsored by Pfizer since its inception in 1999, the award recognises and rewards excellence within the Quality Care Pharmacy Program (QCPP).

John Chapman, CEO of the Australian Institute of Pharmacy Management and Graham Perl, Pfizer Manager of Professional Relations visited the six semi-finalists from as far west as Perth, as far north as Townsville and as far south as South Australia.

"All of the pharmacies that entered the award process demonstrated a drive for excellence in one or more areas of their practice. Choosing the short listed pharmacies and the eventual winners was an extraordinarily difficult task," said Mr Chapman.

Friendlies Chemists combined their 'conventional' pharmacy business with one that had practised for many years with the great majority of its business coming from naturopathy and homeopathy based practice.

Mr Chapman said that the judges recognised this as a significant achievement, noting that Friendlies Chemists "demonstrated the attention to detail and process that characterises entrants in tackling the very complex task of combining two separate pharmacy businesses."

He added: "Since the culture and tradition of these very dissimilar practice types are often diametrically opposed in their approach to the patient, their successful integration is a significant achievement."

Belvedere Park
Pharmacy of Seaford,
Victoria

Second Place

Photo above : Joseph Saad, General Manager, Pfizer Consumer
Healthcare; Mark Feldschuh, Pharmacist Owner Beleveder Park
Pharmacy; John Bronger, National President Pharmacy Guild
of Australia.

Belvedere Park Pharmacy of Seaford, Victoria (pictured above) and Symons Amcal of Wangaratta, Victoria (pictured below) received second and third prizes of $5 000 and $3 000, respectively.

Symons Amcal of Wangaratta, Victoria

Third Place

Photo above : Joseph Saad, General Manager, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare;
Gregg Symons, Pharmacist Owner, Symons Amcal Pharmacy;
John Bronger, National President Pharmacy Guild of Australia.

QCPP is a Guild strategy to raise standards in community pharmacy including the management of scheduled 2 and 3 medicines. The higher the standards, the greater the barrier for any business other than pharmacy to gain distribution opportunity of scheduled medicines.

The Quality Care Pharmacy of the Year Award was initiated with the support of Pfizer to promote the uptake of the QCPP.

"Pfizer is to be congratulated on having the vision to recognise the importance of this award and its impact on Australian pharmacy and the commitment to continue their valuable support," said Mr Chapman.

The importance and support of the QCPP has led to Commonwealth recognition and funding of $10,000 for successful accreditation.

The winner of the Pfizer Quality Care Pharmacy of the Year Award was announced at the Australian Pharmacy Professional 2002 Conference's Gala Conference Dinner on Saturday 23 March.

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Previous Annual Winner, 2001

The Range Pharmacy - Toowoomba

The Pharmacy Guild of Australia congratulates the Range Pharmacy of Toowoomba QLD, as winner of the prestigious Quality Care Pharmacy of the Year 2001.

The Range Pharmacy, based in Toowoomba and servicing the people of the Darling Downs, was announced as the overall winner during a spectacular awards presentation for the Australian Pharmacy Professional conference on the Gold Coast.

Monthly Winners, 2001

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Pharmacy of the Year,
2000 Winner

Berwick Amcal Pharmacy, Berwick, Victoria.

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