Pharmacist services – what Grattan said
The controversial Grattan Report has recommended changes to professional pharmacy services, including medicines reviews – and attacked the PSA’s role in the services agreement The report recommended replacing “arbitrary” caps …
Supermarket talk a ‘distraction’: Grattan
Why shouldn’t the general public be able to pick up “your scripts and sausages under the same roof,” asks Grattan in a follow-up to its controversial report Grattan Institute health …
Recommendations would ‘force the local chemist to turn off the lights’
Suggestions that the location rules be scrapped should be rejected to protect the health of rural Australians, say pharmacists The Remote and Isolated Pharmacist Association Australia (RIPAA) has called on …
Cops strip pharmacy shelves
Police have swooped on a regional NSW pharmacy, seizing items from its storage area According to the Illawarra Mercury, police executed a search warrant on a South Coast pharmacy on …
Fake scripts appear on patient’s My Health Record
A pharmacist’s registration has been suspended after she self-dispensed medicines including diazepam, codeine, tramadol and zolpidem The pharmacist, who was practising in a suburban Perth pharmacy, appeared before Western Australia’s …
‘Don’t take the bait’: AMA president hopeful on Grattan
A candidate for presidency of the AMA says that the Grattan Institute’s new report reflects her campaign platform Dr Anchita Karmakar is a lawyer as well as a rural generalist …
Butler says no to nicotine pouches
Nicotine pouches are to be banned from unapproved therapeutic pathways in a bid to reduce the incidence of addiction in the community Federal health minister Mark Butler has announced that …
More compliance reviews needed for listed medicines: researchers
Less than 2% of Listed Medicines on the TGA registry have been reviewed for efficacy, a new study suggests The study, published in the Internal Medicine Journal by the Royal …
Unwanted medicines ‘reclaimed’ by pharmacist
A Queensland pharmacist was found in possession of 59 packets of medicines which had been surrendered by patients for destruction The pharmacist has appeared before the Queensland Civil and Administrative …
‘A malicious actor accessed some of our data’
A GP clinic network says that it has been the victim of a cyber attack – sparking a warning to health organisations that they need to assume such attacks will …
‘I’m not a criminal’
A woman has accused a police prosecutor of lying about her actions in a pharmacy, after verbally abusing staff Tina Roma O’Shannessy has appeared in the Maroochydore Magistrates Court, where …
RSV outstrips flu, Covid for first time
As RSV cases surge this winter, the Immunisation Foundation is raising awareness about vaccination According to National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System data, cases of respiratory syncytial virus have spiked in …