‘We’re here with a solution’
Follow the Queensland model to utilise pharmacists to fill the primary care gaps, Guild president tells politicians Community pharmacists are prepared to offer the solution to the primary healthcare access …
Rethink needed on dispensing rules
Flood crisis prompts renewed calls for restoration of continued dispensing arrangements The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) is reiterating previous calls for the Federal Government to reinstate full continued dispensing …
What you said
Scope of practice expansion, HMR reporting, and Chemist Warehouse are on our readers minds. Here’s a selection of recent comments we’ve received The Queensland scope of practice pilot program, questions …
What’s coming up in the calendar
Medicines Management 2022 is around the corner, and APP23 on the horizon… let’s take a look at the pharmacy events calendar APP2023 program now available The program for next year’s …
Leading by example
Fei Sim, the PSA’s first female national president, speaks to AJP about her hopes and plans for pharmacy, and what inspires her to strive to lead the profession. Part one …
The top ten
There’s a surprise number one in our list of the ten most read stories on the AJP website over the previous month In a break with AJP tradition, a business …
Where have the pharmacists gone?
Pharmacy Board quarterly data shows a drop in the number of registered pharmacists The number of registered pharmacists recorded by the Pharmacy Board of Australia has dropped in the quarter …
Cost of medicines in the spotlight
Pharmacist speaks up on need for affordable medicines as Parliament debates co-pay bill The federal government has tabled its National Health Amendment (General Co-payment) Bill 2022, bringing what it says …
Who has the most influence in 2022?
This is you last chance to nominate someone in our quest to identify pharmacy’s 12 Most Influential People It seems a long time ago now – back in pre-pandemic 2019 …
Emergency support
Continued dispensing rules ‘not fit for purpose’ say pharmacy leaders as they join other health stakeholders to call for more funding and support in disaster areas Pharmacy groups have joined …
Seven ways to reduce paracetamol self-poisoning
If implemented, recommendations from the TGA’s review of paracetamol overdose could mean more oversight and advice from pharmacy, says a leading pharmacist The Therapeutic Goods Administration has announced the publication …
Where are all the pharmacists?
Skilled migration is the only immediate solution to community pharmacy’s workforce shortages, says Guild president as he decries the hospital sector’s poaching of their staff “There’s no magic bullet for …