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‘This isn’t fearmongering’
Tasmanians who lose their jobs in pharmacy may have no way to find new ones, says the face of a petition on 60-day dispensing The Jacqui Lambie Network has launched …
‘Who is in charge?’
The Labor Government’s “announce first, consult later” approach to 60-day dispensing slammed, as it reportedly prepares modelling to support its position The Australian’s Sarah Ison and Jess Malcolm have written …
Sigma’s financial officer resigns
Organisation stalwart Gary Woodford steps up in interim CFO capacity Sigma Healthcare’s chief financial officer (CFO) Nigel Simonsz has resigned to take on a role outside as group CFO and …
Regional pharmacy reduces hours ahead off double-dispensing hit
Former POTY tries to “get ahead of the inevitable impact” from government policy change A regional NSW pharmacy will be reducing its trading hours from early next month in an …
Almost 21k jobs to go, 665 pharmacies to close; Guild report
One sixth of pharmacies under “financial stress” if government doesn’t relent on double-dispensing Close to 21,000 jobs will be lost, 665 pharmacies will close and another 944 – one sixth …
The week in review
Canberra was the focus this week, as pharmacists received King’s Birthday honours… while 60-day dispensing was a hot topic in Parliament There were fiery exchanges in Parliament about 60-day dispensing …
Minister told to ‘get your big-boy pants on,’ talk to pharmacists
Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie has changed her mind over 60-day dispensing – though “who really cares” if a Chemist Warehouse loses out, she says Lambie spoke out in the Senate …
Pharmacists take to the streets
Around 85% of German pharmacies closed on Wednesday to protest funding shortfalls and greater workloads German media has reported on the Berlin protests which saw pharmacists take to the streets …
Chemist Warehouse’s UK expansion plans
Jack Gance outlines how the CWH group became the dominant force in Australian community pharmacy Chemist Warehouse founder Jack Gance has made it clear, seemingly for the first time, that …
‘We’ll be left with the Woolworths and Coles of pharmacies’
Queensland MP Bob Katter has doubled down on comments made in Parliament, calling double dispensing a deregulation “nightmare” In Parliament on 13 June, Katter had asked Health Minister Mark Butler …
Patent medicines debate heats up as the country flounders
June 1893; poisons, flooding and the worst depression in Australian history It’s 1893, Australia is still eight years away from Federation, the AJP was still the Australasian Journal Of Pharmacy, …
Could 60-day dispensing increase online CM buying?
Pharmacists conducting medicines reviews often come across complementary medicines and “weird stuff” that aren’t right for patients…but how can they best advise on them? If double dispensing helps fuel medicine …