Pharmacy students at Charles Sturt University (CSU) will have a special opportunity to hear directly from the peak body representing community pharmacies in Australia. A member of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia's National Secretariat Mr Andrew Matthews will meet with third year pharmacy students from the School of Biomedical Sciences at CSU in Wagga Wagga on Monday 31 March. Mr Matthews will talk about Pharmacy Medicines classified by Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration as S2 and Pharmacist Only Medicines classified as S3. He will also address the Guild's Quality Care Pharmacy Program, a quality assurance program for community pharmacies.Pharmacy Program Leader at CSU Mr George John said, "Many of these pharmacy students will go on to work in community pharmacies around the country so it is important that they engage with the principles of the Quality Care Pharmacy Program to ensure that their professional practice and business practice is benchmarked against a national standard. It also gives them an overview and understanding of how pharmacies operate in Australia as more than 90 per cent of pharmacies in Australia are QCPP accredited. These guest lecturers from industry leaders like Andrew ensure that our students are engaging with current industrial practices and in turn helping them becoming market ready graduates."