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Forum: The dog ate my repeat can I have a new one please?
“I have been tossing around doing my masters / further study for a few years and have decided that my thesis subject could be how many times the dog leaves …
Pharmacists want to run away
A majority of Australian pharmacists want to leave the profession, a poll suggests. Medicine stands to be a major beneficiary if pharmacists follow through with their threat to leave the …
Cuts a ‘matter of value’
Savage cuts to pharmacy funding defended by UK Prime Minister, who says money is better spent on GPs and nurses. The severe (6%) funding cuts that causing uproar among UK …
Pharmacy flashback
From the AJP archives: a warning on shonky Parramatta lime juice makers! In February 1898 the AJP editorial thundered that “the public has a right to demand that an article …
Forum: HMRs in the bush
“An article published in the SHPA journal JPPR this week highlights the valuable and often extreme role of accredited pharmacists conducting HMRs in rural areas. The current cap of 20 …
Fix hep C supply problems now: Quilty
Pharmacies are facing unprecedented problems supplying new hepatitis C treatments to patients, says Guild executive director David Quilty— and they need to be fixed urgently. In this week’s edition of …
World news wrapup: 21 April 2016
This week’s pharmacy news from around the world UK: Chemist + Druggist reports that the UK’s General Pharmaceutical Council is liaising with the Pharmacists’ Defence Association in regard to information …
Teenage self-harm and tot paracetamol poisoning
Figures from Perth’s Princess Margaret Hospital for Children and compiled by KidSafe have shown that a significant proportion of poisonings are due to self-harm by children aged 14 and over. …
‘11 prototypes that each have the potential to completely disrupt the pharmacy industry.’
The world’s first pharmacy hackathon saw more than 100 participants and observers scramble to form ideas, create teams and then put together working prototypes of pharmacy-related innovations, all within 36 …
Fairer s100 arrangements sought
A delegation of Guild members from the Northern Territory and Western Australia visited Canberra this week to advocate for equitable remuneration for the dispensing of chronic disease prescriptions under the …
Best jobs of 2016: pharmacist rates highly
It appears that life is relatively rosy for American pharmacists, as the profession has been listed close to the top of the 2016 CareerCast.com Jobs Rated report. Out of the …
If I don’t supply it the next pharmacy will
An anonymous poster raises an age old problem in the AJP Discussion Forum: If the owner “refused a sale the buyer would find another pharmacy not using the (MedsAssist) program …