I was recently invited to chat about pharmacist prescribing by an Australian colleague called Tyson Clarke. Tyson is CEO of retail training software company called Voista Pty Ltd. and has an interest in pharmacy in Australia.

The context of our chat is the on-going animosity between pharmacists and GPs in Australia. Tyson interviewed me to find out more about how pharmacist independent prescribing has evolved over the years in Scotland. Australia are on a similar journey towards the inception of pharmacist independent prescribing but the proposals have been met with at times fierce resistance in some quarters.

As ever I hope we brought some moderation to the debate.