Since developing the General Level and Advanced & Consultant Level competency frameworks, there has been much interest from other groups in adapting them for other applications, both in the UK and internationally.
The Safe Medication Practice Unit (SMPU) at Queensland Health, Australia signed a Memorandum of Understanding with CoDEG in 2006 and has been working since then to implement its work on competency frameworks. The General Level Framework has now been adapted for use and has been implemented state-wide in Queensland, Australia.
Atlantic Grupa is the largest chain of community pharmacies in Croatia and is working with CoDEG to develop a competency framework which is applicable to pharmacy practice in Croatia. A Memorandum of Understanding between CoDEG and Atlantic Grupa was signed in 2009.
In late 2009 the New Pharmacist Career Pathway was approved at the SingHealth level. The adapted GLF and ACLF are included as part of this pathway.
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An award-winning presentation by Judith Coombes at the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA) in November 2007 on the state-wide roll out of the GLF in Queensland, Australia.
The Croatian version of the GLF's Delivery of Patient Care cluster was recently developed and published. It is followed by article in the Croatian newspaper 'Vecernji List'.