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Services must provide a return: Twomey
Funding will be key to the expansion of the profession’s scope of practice, Guild leader says Australia must appropriately fund pharmacy’s core function of dispensing and additional services, if the profession …
Pharmacies facing phishing attacks
“Cyber criminals do not need to break down the front door” to access pharmacies’ IT systems, “they simply borrow the keys from someone else”, an expert says Pharmacists are being …
Wesfarmers Health addresses ‘modern slavery’
The healthcare arm of the conglomerate recorded higher breaches year-on-year, but says more than half of the problems identified have been remediated, with the others in progress The owner of …
Top 5 passwords exposed in data breaches
NAB unveils Australia’s most hackable passwords – if you are using them your business data could be at risk Pharmacists urged to steer clear of commonly used passwords, as healthcare …
‘Cyber security is not a tech issue’
Healthcare bosses are being urged to empower staff to slow down and reflect to avoid falling foul of cyber criminals Employers need to educate new staff about how to deal …
Infinity stores ‘continue to trade well’: Wesfarmers Health
The health arm of the conglomerate gave an update on the 73 Infinity Group Priceline Pharmacies, as the division zooms in on its format, ranges and loyalty program Wesfarmers Health …
Guild voices concern for Infinity’s junior partners
Infinity Pharmacy Group’s junior partners should not be scapegoated for the “bad decisions” of others, the Guild says, as a creditor plans legal action Paragon Care’s announcement that it intends …
Paragon eyes legal action over Infinity debt
Wholesaler tells shareholders it will be “going after the personal guarantees” provided by stakeholders in the collapsed Infinity Pharmacy Group Paragon Care is reporting it will recover $9.2 million of …
‘You have to be flexible’: CWH co-founder
Australia’s community pharmacy sector might look quite different had Chemist Warehouse co-founder studied for his MBA before launching the discount giant “Had I done an MBA before I started, I …
GLP-1 gains boost EBOS’ bottom line
The wholesaler and marketer indicated demand for high-value medicines has helped to offset headwinds from rising fuel costs Diversified company EBOS says network expansion and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1s) …
‘Surely there has to be a way to restore this service to the community’
Two pharmacists, a federal MP and a local community have worked together to bring back PBS services to a NSW store, resulting in a new Ministerial decision Navin Bakshi says …
Queensland pharmacies leaving it late to renew business licence
Pharmacy owners face potential prosecution if they fail to renew their business licence by 2 November 2026 More than 800 pharmacies have yet to submit a valid application to the …