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Students to get free SHPA membership
From July this year, students undertaking their first pharmacy degree, leading to provisional registration as a pharmacist with the Pharmacy Board of Australia, will have access to free membership of …
Monitoring about to get real
Real-time monitoring gets a budget boost Pharmacy groups have welcomed a Victorian government budget commitment to fund a real-time prescription monitoring program. The funding commitment of $30 million in this …
Panadol Osteo to stay delisted
The PBAC has reaffirmed its decision that Panadol Osteo should be delisted. “The PBAC assessed the issues raised in the correspondence, but did not consider that there was any basis …
A question of ethics
Doctors say selling CAMs is a violation of medical ethics Most doctors believe it is unethical for pharmacists to sell complementary medicines without an established evidence based. A new poll …
Medicine time, or is it?
Consumer info on the right time to take medicines not up to scratch, experts say Information available to consumers and health professionals about the optimal time to take medications is …
Pharmacy Alliance teams up with Essendon
Pharmacy Alliance is now an official commercial partnership of the Essendon Football Club for the 2016 AFL season, it has announced. Pharmacy Alliance says this is an exciting opportunity for …
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 …