SIRCHCS201 Support the supply of Pharmacy Medicines and Pharmacist Only Medicines

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for SIRCHCS201 ended on 29 March 2016 — 10 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockClosed to new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 31 March 2017 — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National VET Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR RTOs and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355, in force 1 July 2025)), or from a later date if ASQA has approved otherwise for your organisation.

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

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Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
SIR07 — Retail Services Training Package
Currency period ends
29 March 2016
Latest release
Release 1 · 13 June 2012
Supersedes
SIRPPKS001A
Superseded by
SIRCIND002 not equivalent

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

  1. SIRCHCS201Superseded — not equivalentSupport the supply of Pharmacy Medicines and Pharmacist Only Medicines
  2. not equivalent
  3. SIRCIND002CurrentSupport the supply of Pharmacy Medicines and Pharmacist Only Medicines

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

  • SIRPPKS001ASIRCHCS201equivalent12 June 2012

    New functional area. Unit descriptor expanded to define regulatory environment. Application statement expanded to define scope and boundaries of pharmacy assistant role. No change to the overall scope or outcomes of the unit.

  • SIRCHCS201SIRCIND002not equivalent30 March 2016

    Not equivalent. Updated to meet Standards for Training Packages. • Competency Field changed to Working in Industry to better reflect application of the unit. • Significant changes to Elements and Performance Criteria to refocus the unit and remove duplication with HCS and PPA units. • Changed knowledge requirements to remove duplication in HCS and PPA units: o typical schedule of pharmacy procedures o typical schedule of questions asked to collect information about customer needs o typical schedule of triggers for referral o roles of pharmacy and dispensary assistants in finalising supply of S3 medicines and other products after pharmacist provision of therapeutic advice.

Is SIRCHCS201 on your scope?

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Where SIRCHCS201 is used

training.gov.au lists SIRCHCS201 inside 5 training products, none of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for SIRCHCS201 in that product.

Products no longer current 5 listed

The register still records SIRCHCS201 inside these, but it no longer recommends them as current. They are here because a scope history or an old enrolment can still point at them.

CodeTraining productTypeSIRCHCS201 is
SIR20112Certificate II in Community PharmacyQualificationcore
SIR30112Certificate III in Community PharmacyQualificationcore
SIR40112Certificate IV in Community PharmacyQualificationelective
SIRSS00008DispensarySkill setelective
TLI21216Certificate II in Driving OperationsQualificationelective

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 28 August 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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