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Pharmacy Department Licence - Victoria

Description

You will need this licence to operate a pharmacy department. A pharmacy department is part of a community health centre, hospital or other registered funded health service set aside for supplying, compounding or dispensing medicines to patients and staff.

Before you can start dispensing medicine, your premises will also need to be registered separately as a pharmacy. A pharmacy department must be personally supervised by a registered pharmacist at all times it is open for business.

Service type

Licence

A licence defines the need to obtain recognition / certification and registration to undertake a certain business activity.

Eligibility requirements

Only registered funded agencies, registered community health centres, and private hospitals are eligible to apply for this licence. The Agency must be satisfied that your pharmacy department complies with good pharmacy practice and meets applicable legislative requirements.

As part of the application process you will be required to provide the Agency with certain documentation and information.

Prerequisites

Must Have

Victorian Pharmacy Authority Guidelines

Duration

Ongoing, subject to renewal and ongoing inspections.

Fees

Fees Details for this service in table format.

Task Type Business Structure Amount Description
Apply Application All $620.00 Fees for 2023-24
Apply Licence All $340.00

Annual registration. Fees for 2023-24

Act(s) name

Pharmacy Regulation Act 2010 Victoria

Lodgement process

Apply

Please lodge your completed application and all associated documentation and fees directly with the Agency. Further details on the application process is available directly from the Agency and their website.

Approval time

Please allow up to 6 weeks for your application to be processed.

Administering agency

Victorian Pharmacy Authority

Contact details

Contact Email, Phone and Address Details for this service in simple two column table format, header then data.