In order to fulfil the needs relating to pharmaceutical care of the people of South Africa, the scope of practice of the pharmacy profession has been prescribed in terms of section 35A of the Pharmacy Act.
The following services or acts are regarded as being services or acts pertaining to the scope of practice of a pharmacist—
| (a) |
the provision of pharmaceutical care by taking responsibility for the patients medicine-related needs and being accountable for meeting these needs, which shall include but not be limited to the following functions: |
| (i) |
evaluation of a patient's medicine-related needs by determining the indication, safety and effectiveness of the therapy; |
| (ii) |
dispensing of any medicine or scheduled substance on the prescription of a person authorised to prescribe medicine; |
| (iii) |
furnishing of information and advice to any person with regard to the use of medicine; |
| (iv) |
determining patient compliance with the therapy and follow-up to ensure that the patient's medicine-related needs are met; and |
| (v) |
the provision of pharmacist-initiated therapy; |
| (b) |
the compounding, manipulation, preparation or packaging of any medicine or scheduled substance or the supervision thereof; |
| (c) |
the manufacturing of any medicine or scheduled substance or the supervision thereof; |
| (d) |
the purchasing, acquiring, importing, keeping, possessing, using, releasing, storage, packaging, re-packaging, supplying or selling of any medicine or scheduled substance or the supervision thereof; |
| (e) |
the application for the registration of a medicine in accordance with the Medicines Act; |
| (f) |
the formulation of any medicine for the purposes of registration as a medicine; |
| (g) |
the distribution of any medicine or scheduled substance; |
| (h) |
the re-packaging of medicines; and |
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(i) |
the initiation and conducting of pharmaceutical research and development. |
Public Service Commission Act, 1997
