The top ten
What were the ten most clicked stories over the previous month? One topic has dominated the pharmacy news cycle like no other in recent weeks… and yes our top ten …
Leading from the front
Tom Simpson, SHPA’s recently elected president, talks about his career in both pharmacy and E-health When I attended Medicines Management 2022 in November last year, the newly elected President of …
Small wins for small business
The federal budget did contain some welcome initiatives to help the small business community While the attention of most in the pharmacy sector was on medicines policy when Federal Treasurer …
A troubled new age looms
Federal Budget delivers expected pain for community pharmacy, with some minor gains, while general practice wins major concessions Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers has delivered what many in community pharmacy are …
Coming up on the calendar
The pharmacy world will be coming to Australia later in 2023, meanwhile a prominent health reformer will be speaking to the sector. Let’s look at the latest news in events …
The week in review
The debate over the impact of 60-day dispensing rumbled on this week, while regulations tightened on paracetamol and e-cigarettes Pharmacy continued to express its opposition to the planned move to …
Hello to the PBS
May 1948: Pharmacists were preparing for the launch of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme on 1 June, despite ongoing opposition from doctors threatening its success Australia’s pharmacists were gearing up for …
CWH’s Tascone takes on Guild – with jelly beans
Disruptor chain director speaks out on location/ownership rules, supermarkets moving into pharmacy…and the jelly bean wars The My Chemist director’s exclusive interview with AJP at the 2023 APP conference covered …
‘An excrescence foisted on legitimate pharmacists’
April 1923: Calls are growing for the government to close loopholes and restrict pharmacy ownership to pharmacists “It is a matter for regret that in the pharmacy laws of the …
The next move
The chess pieces have shifted noticeably for community pharmacy in recent days. AJP editor Chris Brooker reflects on what’s occurred and what may happen next On Thursday 20th I closed …
April MIMS update
We look at some of the recent changes to the medicines landscape, with new products as well as changes to indications New products Belzutifan (Welireg) is an inhibitor of hypoxia‑inducible …
Prescribing not an increase in scope
Queensland’s urinary tract infection (UTI) pharmacy pilot is being hailed as a success by Dr Jean Spinks, a senior research fellow at the University of Queensland’s Centre for the Business …