Have you checked your books?
The ATO is increasing its application of justified trust reviews, and not just to the top end of town, says consultant Lauren Whelan The recent increase in flow of available …
Clinical tips: Medicinal cannabis
Tony Hall, Esther Lau and Lisa Nissen take a look at the current state of play with medicinal cannabis Patient demand for medicinal cannabis is still growing. Currently, there are …
A flawed agenda
The Government’s current narrow focus on 60-day dispensing and the $1 discount is doing little to ease fears that universal access to medicines is under threat from its determination to …
Without more detail, it’s premature to say voluntary assisted dying laws in Victoria are ‘working well’
Courtney Hempton from Deakin University and Marc Trabsky from La Trobe University take a look at the Voluntary Assisted Dying report The Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board has this week …
Getting back to basics
What are five key areas you need to focus on in your pharmacy? Business expert John Thornett outlines his top five It can be a little overwhelming when you are …
When the bark is worse than the bite!
Ralph Tapping takes a look at more of the questionable treatments offered in pharmacies in days gone by, including a rather toxic snake bite remedy Following upon my previous article …
The market situation
What’s the current situation with the pharmacy market? Natalie Sirianni provides the first update for 2020 As a Pharmacy Business Broker, the question I get asked most often is: “How …
The exam you can’t afford to fail
Community pharmacy needs to learn from, and correct, its past mistakes if it is to remain competitive, say Bruce Annabel and Mal Scrymgeour One of us had a school friend …
Health follies
Pharmacy historian Ralph Tapping has been looking into some of the questionable treatments sold in pharmacy in the recent past Laudanum and other preparations containing tincture of opium, for example …
Unauthorised generic substitutions, changes warning
Some pharmacists feel that they can make generic substitutions or changes to instructions where this is unauthorised, thinking these actions have no consequence – but that’s not the case In …
Speeding up the sale
A look at the current pharmacy market and how to speed up the timeframe of a sale. By Natalie Sirianni In this article I want to focus on a key …
Clinical tips: fertility
What is the pharmacist’s role in assistance with fertility? Bev Mistry-Cable takes an in-depth look Many couples may experience difficulty in falling pregnant, with one in six Australian couples struggling …