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Forum: who has access to your data?
Michael Khoo writes: “I suppose it is a sign of how desperate things are for Community Pharmacy. I recently received an email telling me that I am “missing out” on …
World news wrapup: 7 April 2016
AJP looks at this week’s pharmacy news from around the world West Virginia, US: Recent data for the state of West Virginia show a 40% decrease in doctor shopping over …
Pharmacists, critic butt heads over readmissions
It started when the Pharmacy Guild tweeted its welcome to the focus on avoidable hospital readmissions in Friday’s COAG communique, which identified that too many patients are readmitted following complications …
Real-time system needed, but not ‘silver bullet’
A Victorian coroner has called for a real-time prescription monitoring system to reduce pharmaceutical drug related harms and deaths following the death of a 47-year-old man who doctor shopped extensively …
Pharmacy not getting credit it deserves: Quilty
Pharmacy is not getting the credit it deserves in creating savings through PBS reforms, Guild executive director David Quilty writes in this week’s edition of Forefront – and so it …
Pfizer and Allergan deal off
Pfizer and Allergan’s merger has been scuppered by new US legislation, news agency Reuters is reporting. Pfizer has decided to terminate the agreement to acquire Allergan, a $160 billion agreement …
Depression Practice Review available in express version
The latest Pharmacy Practice Review developed by NPS MedicineWise is available in an express version, which NPS says makes it a perfect choice for time-poor pharmacists to earn CPD credits. …
Do RMMR pharmacists get a raw deal? Have your say in the AJP Discussion Forum.
Great discussion underway in the new AJP Discussion Forum about the perceived poor deal handed out to RMMR accredited pharmacists. Penny Kraemer writes “As we all are very well aware, …
Medicinal cannabis moving too slow for patients
An advocacy group for medicinal cannabis users and supporters has launched in the ACT, lobbying Government to make the drug’s use legal for medicinal purposes in the Territory. The TGA …
OTC asthma preventers, restricted relievers proposed
Experts alarmed at a possible figure of a million people with uncontrolled asthma have proposed major structural changes to the way asthma medicines are handled, including OTC preventers and restricting …
UK report shows pharmacy social good
A UK report has quantified the increasing role played by community pharmacies in public health. The community pharmacy offer for improving the public’s health, published by the Local Government Association, …
Healthcare Professionals are from Venus, Economists are from Mars
Great post from Bourke pharmacist Peter Crothers yesterday on day 1 of the new AJP Discussion Forum. “One of the more challenging sessions in a well above-average quality plenary program …