COVID-19
COVID vax plans move forward
The federal government has revealed more details about the COVID vaccination rollout, as the first provider training modules are launched The Australian Government has launched the first funded training modules …
The week in review
There’s been a lot happening in pharmacy this week, with COVID-19 vaccine and scheduling news coming to the fore Pharmacist and ALP MP for Dobell Emma McBride called in Parliament …
Perth is the latest city to suffer a COVID quarantine breach
Why does this keep happening? asks Michael Toole, Burnet Institute Here’s a newspaper headline from May 27, 2020: “Worker at Melbourne quarantine hotel tests positive for COVID-19”. And here’s one …
World news wrapup: 4 February 2021
Vaccine-tampering pharmacist believes “the sky is not real, rather it is a shield put up by the Government to prevent individuals from seeing God;” digital pharmacist consults roll out in …
COVID testing: is the sky falling?
A risk management focus emerges as the Queensland COVID testing pilot draws closer – and one pharmacy leader says new GP criticisms are simply more “Chicken Little” rhetoric Queensland Health …
WA COVID update
One organisation has advice for pharmacists, as WA sets up a pop-up COVID clinic near a pharmacy on the watch list WA’s Department of Health made a statement on Monday …
Covid jab ‘going to go crazy’ in pharmacy
Pharmacies are set to receive up to $42 per person for administering the COVID vaccine, as groups welcome the invitation to participate in the rollout Community pharmacies are now invited …
CWH, Pharmacy 777 on watch list
Pharmacies are on the list of places visited by a man with a confirmed case of COVID-19 in WA WA Health has confirmed that a security guard working at a …
The week in review
COVID vaccination was a key issue this week, as well as the future of pharmacy, as NAPSA held its annual congress There was big news from the Morrison Government this …
Vaccine willingness growing
More Australians now plan to be vaccinated when a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available… and we look at why others won’t Now 79% of Australians say they would be willing to …
World news wrapup: 28 January 2021
Pharmacists “summarily let go” in mass ShopRite closures; vaccine-tampering pharmacist to plead guilty; pharmacists spearhead minority vaccine uptake Keasbey, New Jersey: Wakefern Food Corp has announced that it will close …
Pharmacists encouraged to be at frontline
Pharmacists and other stakeholders have welcomed the TGA’s provisional approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia has welcomed the Therapeutic Goods Administration approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech …