Pharmacy guild president stands by ‘unifying, inspiring’ comments criticising GPs

Professor Trent Twomey said his comments were 'patient centred'
Professor Trent Twomey
Professor Trent Twomey.

The Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s president is standing by his comments that GP supervision of pharmacist prescribing would be “bloody insulting” and that GPs “stuffed” the health system by letting non-doctors own practices.

Professor Trent Twomey told pharmacy students last week that pharmacists should be able to prescribe all medicines within their scope of practice, in comments reported by the Australian Journal of Pharmacy.