To the Editor,

Hospital pharmacy, from a health workforce perspective, is grouped with other non-medical, non-nursing allied health professions. This group comprises: audiologists, chiropractors, dietitians, exercise physiologists, occupational therapists, orthoptists, orthotists, pharmacists, physiotherapists, podiatrists, prosthetists, psychologists, radiation therapists, radiographers, social workers, sonographers and speech pathologists. Pharmacists make up around 13 % of the health workforce and hospital pharmacy accounts for a small proportion.1 This group, with the exception of physiotherapists, is represented at a national level by their peak body – Allied Health Professions Australia. I sit on this group’s board as a Director on behalf of the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia. The benefits of membershi