Cara Kolopelnyk awarded Pharmacy Student of the Year 2016
She also took home the People’s Choice Award in a clean sweep at the PSA 2016 Gala Dinner The award was presented by PSA National President Joe Demarte at the …
Ley answers on King Review, hep C, NDSS
Health Minister Sussan Ley covers NDSS transition hiccups, prices of hep C medication and health care homes at the PSA 2016 conference “Pharmacists and GPs represent the two central pillars …
Infamous pharmacy spats on Twitter
Representatives of the Pharmacy Guild and the RACGP have once again exchanged terse words on the social media platform It all began with 140 characters. David Quilty, Executive Director of …
Pharmacy owners tackling decade-high rents
Get back to the basics or risk losing your business, warns retail leasing specialist Pharmacy rents are at their highest in a decade and even outstripping the Consumer Price Index …
Pharmacy location rules in question
The King Review discussion paper is scrutinising location and ownership rules, and supermarket restrictions Currently there are 11 pharmacy location rules agreed to by the Department of Health and the …
Semi-finalists announced for 2016 National Student Business Plan
Best and brightest from across Australia and New Zealand have made it to next round of Pharmacy Guild’s business plan comp Eight teams of university pharmacy students have been selected as …
“I was addicted to them. I was desperate.”
A NSW doctor fooled colleagues and pharmacists with falsified scripts for OxyContin that ended up totalling 2,856 tablets The 34-year-old doctor had been deregistered for at least three years after …
Medicines shortages affect most pharmacists
Eighty-five percent of you are affected by shortages on a regular basis, according to our latest poll Due to a shortage of both brands and generics, 76% of poll respondents …
Over-the-counter HIV test coming to Australia
A rapid detection HIV test that can be purchased without a prescription may soon become available in Australia The CEO of Sydney-based company Atomo Diagnostics, John Kelly, has told the The Age he is hoping …
‘Telepharmacy’ growing in Australia
Rural and remote patients are able to access pharmacists for medication management and other clinical services using technology Technology is transforming healthcare “in a way that would have been unimaginable …
Do you manage insomnia?
Pharmacists located in general practice can help manage insomnia, say pharmacy and sleep researchers In a small study run by researchers from the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research and NHMRC …
Workplace pressure: what you said
Stress in the pharmacy is reaching its peak in the face of overwhelming workloads for underwhelming pay After receiving an abundance of thought-provoking comments from you, our AJP readers, about workplace …