An Advanced Pharmacy Practice Framework for Australia.

The need to develop (the "APPF") was identified during the 2010 review of the competency standards for Australian pharmacists. The Advanced Pharmacy Practice Framework Steering Committee, a collaborative profession-wide committee comprised of representatives of ten pharmacy organisations, examined and adapted existing advanced practice frameworks, all of which were found to have been based on the (the "CoDEG Framework") from the United Kingdom. Its competency standards were also found to align well with the Domains of the (the "National Framework").