Current consultations

The Board carries out wide-ranging consultation on proposals that affect the profession.

The Board may also publish a discussion paper to explore and seek feedback on practice issues that could affect the profession and the public.

Where there are consultations or discussion papers open for input, they will be shown below.

Where there are consultations which have closed, they will be shown under Past Consultations, along with the submissions that were received.

Public consultation: Draft Guidelines for pharmacists on the safe provision of pharmacy services including medicines and advice

Released: 18 August 2025
Closes: 13 October 2025

The Pharmacy Board of Australia is consulting on draft Guidelines for pharmacists on the safe provision of pharmacy services including medicines and advice. The consultation pack is available below as a PDF, with a separate Word document template for providing a response.

• Public consultation pack including paper and attachments (1.34 MB,PDF) 
• Response template (92.4 KB,DOCX) 

Making a submission

You can provide feedback by close of business on 13 October 2025 by one of two ways:

1. submitting your answers to the questions via an online survey

OR

2. using the response template and sending it as a Word document (not PDF) by email to [email protected]

We will not provide separate responses to individuals who make a submission, but we will publish a summary of the information gathered.

Publication of submissions

The Board publishes submissions at its discretion. The Board generally publishes submissions on its website to encourage discussion and inform the community and stakeholders. Published submissions will include the names of the individuals and/or the organisations that made them, unless confidentiality is requested.

We will not place on our website, or make available to the public, submissions that contain offensive or defamatory comments or which are outside the scope of the subject of the consultation.

Before publication, we may remove personally identifying information from submissions, including contact details.