[4] The principal role of the organisation is to represent the interests of its members in industrial matters with the Fair Work Commission and state jurisdictions; secondary roles include negotiating Community Pharmacy Agreements with the Australian Government[5] and providing advocacy for members on political issues.
[10] Branch activities centre on the day-to-day servicing of members in such fields as industrial relations, marketing, staff training, and product and economic information.
[citation needed] More recently the agreements have provided the funding for additional clinical services intended to improve the use of PBS and RPBS medicines in the community.
The company owns the Glucojel Confectionary[clarification needed] and is the publisher of the official journal of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, In The Know (ITK).
In 2011 GuildCare was launched as part of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia's initiative to have a national systemised platform for delivering of professional health services.
Fred IT currently provides:[19] Established in 1992, the AACP is the major credentialing body for professional pharmacy cognitive services that are remunerated separately from the supply of medicines.
This led to complaints from Pharmacy Guild members,[21] due in part to anti-vaccination comments made by the One Nation leader Pauline Hanson.