Rollo Manning - Mirrijini Manager

Rollo Manning has 40 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry across all facets of its operation.

He worked in sales and marketing in the manufacturing sector (Glaxo Australia); public relations in pharmacy administration (with the Pharmacy Guild of Australia in Canberra) and owned a community pharmacy in Queanbeyan (NSW) for eight years before moving to Darwin in 1996.

He took up a position as "Rural Pharmacist" in the Katherine Region responsible for supplying pharmaceuticals to 23 remote Aboriginal health clinics before being transferred to Darwin where he took on the position of Senior Pharmacy Policy Officer for Territory Health Services (THS) from May 1998 to February 2001. In that position he was the NT representative on the National Drug and Poisons Scheduling Committee, the Therapeutic Goods Coordinating Committee and the Steering Committees of two National Competition Policy Reviews of pharmacy regulation.

Rollo then left the public service and devoted his time to the emerging pharmacy project with the Tiwi Health Board. This involved steering a path towards a HIC Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme Approval Number for a pharmacy business which was not owned by an individual pharmacist.

The work with the Tiwi people has given Rollo the opportunity to put into action all the experience he has gained during his career and at the "coalface" developing a pharmacy service from the "ground up".

He would like to pass this on to others involved in remote health through Mirrijini Pty Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Tiwi Health Board. The company was established to market the model of pharmacy practice developed on the Tiwi Islands. It will also provide a consultancy advice to others wanting to tread the same path of owning a pharmacy within their service.

Rollo has developed strong views over the past two years on the future direction for health services to Indigenous Australians and is firmly committed to addressing the social determinants of ill health. He has presented on this subject at recent conferences.

Within the Tiwi pharmacy model there is attention to:

• Health promotion;
• Training and education of indigenous health workers and pharmacy technicians;
• All aspects of policy surrounding pharmaceutical use in health care;
• Development of IT services to pharmacy practice.
  

And more specifically:

• Client's understanding of disease;
• Role of a pharmacists in achieving compliance in its broadest sense;
• Dispensing/inventory control software package;
• Use of Websterpak as a dose administration aid;
• Maximizing the potential for pharmacy/doctor Home Medication Reviews

Pharmacy/Public Relations Consultant
PO Box 527 Parap NT 0804

Telephone
Home 08 8942 2101
Mobile 0411 049 872
Tiwi Health Board 08 8980 1800
Nguiu Pharmacy 08 8978 3807

www.rollomanning.com