McCarthy’s Pharmacy: Bringing help to the customer
The prestigious Guild Pharmacy of the Year Award is set to be announced at this week’s APP2016 conference on the Gold Coast: in this series, AJP profiles the finalists If …
Practice incentives for pharmacists in general practice: is it time to take the leap?
Manya Angley takes a look at the pharmacist role in general practice—and the road ahead The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC) concluded that 2%–3% of …
What I’d like to see pharmacists do in 2016
Pharmacists will need to keep on top of their own health as well as the health of their business in 2016, writes Samantha Kourtis The last two years have been …
Why upscheduling codeine combination products is a really bad idea
Professor Peter Carroll, Dr Rebekah Moles, Dr Slade Matthews, Stuart Nankivell and Nick Logan (Members of the NSW Poisons Advisory Committee) on why they think upscheduling combination codeine products is …
Why it’s hard to justify upscheduling codeine OTCs: Schoombie
As the final decision on OTC codeine scheduling draws near, ASMI’s Deon Schoombie ponders some of the drawbacks of upscheduling In the lead up to the announcement of the final …
How a real-time OTC codeine monitoring system would look
ASMI’s Deon Schoombie takes a look at how the prototype real-time monitoring system for OTC codeine would work During the last few weeks there has been substantial discussion about the …
ASMI fighting to turn around codeine upschedule: Steve Scarff
Upscheduling codeine-containing OTCs to prescription only would cause more problems than it would fix, writes Steve Scarff ASMI is opposed to the interim decision to up-schedule OTC codeine medicines to …