Don’t shoot the messenger
The profession must engage in broader health care and social debates, writes AJP Editor Chris Brooker While pharmacy as a profession strives to expand its standing and role in the …
Compounding conundrum
Cautions issued to compounders who broke guidelines over replicating commercial products The Pharmacy Board of Australia has expressed concerns about pharmacists’ breaching compounding guidelines by preparing products that are …
Come gather round people….
Can the worlds of folk music and pharmacy be mixed? It would seem that folk music and pharmacy don’t mix, at least in the eyes of pharmacists who participated in …
The right label
New labelling changes aim to warn consumers about potential allergens The TGA is set to implement new rules to include improved information about potential allergens on medicine labels. While certain …
What’s on?
What’s coming up on the pharmacy event calendar? PSA17 Conference 28 – 30 July 2017 Sydney, NSW Click here Pharmacy Snow Business 2017 5 – 9 August 2017 Mt Buller, …
Guild committees take shape
Election results are in for Pharmacy Guild committees in the two biggest states, with a number of new candidates elected Some new faces will sit on the committees of both …
Cut the crap
Pharmacists are trusted medical professionals, so they shouldn’t sell remedies that lack evidence, article claims Pharmacy bodies such as the PSA need to become more stringent in their opposition to …
A cut to the heart
Pharmacy staff paying the price for government’s failure, Opposition leader says Workers covered under the pharmacy award are among the 700,000 Australians set to pay the price for federal government …
Codeine concerns widespread
Consumers oppose codeine upscheduling, as do a third of GPs, but concerns over pharmacists’ advice raised by survey Most consumers and pharmacists oppose the upscheduling of codeine, and a third …
Pricing overhaul
Dispensing fees, pricing discretion and pharmacy layout in the King Review firing line Pharmacies should have no discretion to either raise or lower prices for PBS-listed medicines beyond the co-payment …
Branch warfare
NSW Guild election hots up as voting deadline approaches Things are set to come to a head in the hotly contested elections for the branch committee of the Pharmacy Guild …
Fentanyl patch warning
Concerns over forged patch prescriptions being dispensed in pharmacies The NSW Ministry of Health’s Pharmaceutical Regulatory Unit has reported that “large numbers of forged prescriptions for fentanyl transdermal patches have …