Hospital pharmacists are experts in medicines. They are part of multidisciplinary healthcare teams. They provide clinical pharmacy services at the bedside, and other clinical areas such as emergency departments and outpatient clinics alongside doctors and nurses. They provide specialist medicine manufacture and drug information and work to ensure medication safety and support around medicines use to staff and patients. While hospital pharmacists primarily work in patient-facing roles, innovation in hospital pharmacy practice and systems has led to pharmacists being essential team members in aged care and rehabilitation facilities, electronic medicines systems and eMR, procurement, clinical governance, patient safety, public health and community services.
2010Headcount
78.3%Female
30Work hours per week
41.7Years average age
7.6%Future 60+
3.4%Aboriginal workforce target
Demand is expected to grow 2.3% (low demand scenario) to 2.5% (high demand scenario).
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Workforce modelling indicates the need to grow the NSW pharmacy workforce by around 4 to 11 new professionals per annum to meet community need in 2040 across both demand scenarios.
1290Headcount
28.5Work hours per week
39.1Years average age
76.5%Female
2.9%Aged 60+
0.3%Aboriginal
910Headcount
28.4Work hours per week
38.6Years average age
1.5%Aged 60+
442Headcount
28.8Work hours per week
39.8Years average age
1.1%Aged 60+
The geographic distribution of the public workforce by local health district/network, by facility and per 100,000 population.
0 1-25 26-50 51-75 76-100 100+
0 1-5 6-10 11-15 16-20 20+
* Note: The inclusion of added qualitative inputs within career opportunities varies from standard modelling methodology calculations and hence differs to standard modelling outcomes.
