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‘Women often have a different perspective than men and this is our strength’
Pharmacists and pharmacy leaders tackle issues including discrimination, cost-of-living pressures, parenthood and workplace flexibility for this International Women’s Day Today (8 March 2025) is International Women’s Day, and this year’s …
Emergency meds access ‘needs to be simplified’
Measures enabling pharmacists to provide emergency supplies of subsidised medicines under continued dispensing need to be revised, pharmacy bodies say Pharmacy organisations are calling for the restoration of Covid-19-era continued …
‘Pharmacy in motion’: Energy comes alive
Medicines Management 2025 (MM2025) is heading to Melbourne in November, with a theme aimed at capturing “magic and momentum” Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) has unveiled the theme and look for …
Why DEI benefits everyone
Diversity, equity and inclusion strengthen health care, says AdPha as it launches its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) is embracing inclusion and accelerating action around the …
Independent backs expanded prac payments
Healthcare students get political support for campaign to extend the Commonwealth Prac Payment program to all undertaking mandatory placements Nurse and midwife-turned federal MP, Dr Helen Haines, is joining health …
Women’s health hit by cost-of-living crisis
Interest rates may have been cut – just a little – but the cost of living crisis continues to bite, and it’s hitting women’s ability to access medicines Community pharmacists …
The week in review
Pharmacists preparing for Cyclone Alfred, investment in jobs and flexibility and medicines shortages were among the issues that caught our readers’ attention in the past seven days Pharmacy owners were …
‘There’s always a chance we could be sleeping in the pharmacy’
Pharmacists in south-east Queensland and northern NSW have been working overtime with skeleton crews, as several grapple with power outages and storms amid Cyclone Alfred’s approach The category two cyclone …
‘Don’t take any notice of the grumpies of the world’
It’s 1935, and in between a campaign against tuberculosis and another against chain stores, one pharmacist took on the subject of the “synthetic flapper” In our March, 1935 edition, the …
Pharmacy braces for Cyclone Alfred
Pharmacy owners prepare to be there for patients when cyclone strikes Just three years after floods hit Northern NSW, the owners of Varela and Swift Pharmacy in Muwillumbah are getting …
Healthcare emissions could triple by 2025
Australia is a high producer of health-related greenhouse gas emissions – how can pharmacists help? “Empowering safe and sustainable use of medicines” is the theme for this year’s MedsAware Deprescribing …
A wave of positive change
Reducing unnecessary medicines creates a “ripple effect” which can positively impact not only patients, but the environment, says one leading pharmacist Around MedsAware: Deprescribing Week 2025 (10-16 March), the AJP …