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Hope for UK pharmacy cuts?
The UK’s new PM has raised hopes that she might reverse cuts to the UK’s community pharmacy sector, the Sunday Express reports. National Pharmacy Association chairman Ian Strachan, who presented …
SA hospital out of chemotherapy meds
A cancer patient has been refused her scheduled chemotherapy treatment as well as medicines from the hospital pharmacy, Adelaide’s Advertiser reports. This is the latest in a series of problems …
Stephen King talks future with independent pharmacies
Professor Stephen King was in Adelaide last week to discuss the Review of Pharmacy Remuneration and Regulation with Pharmacy Choice members. At the Member Network Event, Prof King had an …
Under-fives insecticide risk
Calls to a poisons hotline have revealed a disproportionate number of young children referred to hospital following suspected exposure to a household bug and spider spray. The University of Queensland analysed …
Study reveals key therapeutic strategy for severe asthma
University of Newcastle respiratory researchers have discovered new factors and a pathway that may drive the onset of steroid resistance in severe asthma, which they hope could lead to a …
Another $70 million in new medicines listed
The Government has subsidised another $70 million round of new revolutionary medicines that will make treatments for Type 2 diabetes cheaper and more accessible and also help save the lives …
Western NSW pharmacies in after-hours pilot
After-hours help for customers is the focus of a new partnership between the Pharmacy Guild and the Western NSW Primary Health Network. The two are piloting a program for upskilling …
A compelling vision
Crafting a compelling service vision statement … avoiding the fluff and bland motherhood statements A progressive, medium sized, neighbourhood shopping centre, branded pharmacy recently shunned its brand’s mission statement as …
Blackmores launches new online tool
The free peer-reviewed guide can be used “on the pharmacy floor” to check interactions between complementary and prescriptions medicines Blackmore’s Complementary Medicine Interactions Guide will provide pharmacists with current, evidence-based …
Pharmacists willing to go west: poll
While it isn’t everybody’s first choice, a significant number of Australian pharmacists would consider leaving the city behind in a bid to further their career, a recent AJP.com.au poll suggests. …
Morphine overdose ‘enough to kill a whole paddock of horses’
Daughter of a woman who died from hospital overdose says the doctor ignored a pharmacist who queried the dose A Tasmanian coroner has highlighted significant shortcomings of a hospital pharmacy …
S8 handling criticised again
Handling of S8 medicines has again been highlighted by the Victorian Pharmacy Authority in its latest circular “Poor record keeping of transactions of Schedule 8 poisons identified during inspections has …