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HMC Capital reaping reward of Sigma investment
Major Sigma Healthcare shareholder, HMC Capital, is cashing in on its investment after the ACCC backed the wholesaler’s proposed merger with Chemist Warehouse Asset manager, HMC Capital, is continuing to …
Pharmacist could have flagged dosing error: report
Human error was behind an incorrect dose that played role in a man’s death—but an ED pharmacist and e-prescribing system could have picked it up, coroner finds An “inappropriate and …
Looking at the data
How many trans people are accessing PBS-subsidised testosterone therapy? Dispensing data analysis finds significantly higher proportions in young people One in five prescriptions for PBS-subsidised testosterone are likely for “gender …
‘Hospital pharmacy has never stood still, and neither can we’
The rebranding of Advanced Pharmacy Australia has generated “important conversations” about the “evolution of identity,” the organisation says Advanced Pharmacy Australia (formerly the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia) has …
Guild backs free RSV vaccinations
NIPVIP access to maternal RSV vaccine “truly world-leading”, Guild says Providing pregnant women with free access to the maternal respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine will help prevent babies from being …
The week in review
What a week! Between the Chemist Warehouse-Sigma merger and the scope of practice review report, it was a huge few days in the pharmacy sector This week the ACCC announced …
‘It has become so stressful … I am considering changing professions’
Medicines shortages are taking a toll on the majority of pharmacists, according to a new survey, with almost a third reporting patient frustration over GLP-1s An “overwhelming majority” of pharmacists …
Pharmacists South Australia’s Local Heroes
Award win recognition of the positive impact pharmacists have on the community South Australian pharmacists, Irfan and Sobia Hashimi are in line for Australia Day Eve recognition after being named …
Pharmacists ‘ready and willing’: APC
The Australian Pharmacy Council (APC) welcomes the release of the Unleashing the Potential of our Health Workforce – Scope of Practice Review Final Report Led by Professor Mark Cormack, the …
Essential guidance updated
An “essential resource” has been updated, says FIP Statements on pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences education (The “Nanjing Statements”), developed by the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) in 2016 to guide the …
Sigma/CWH merger to change pharmacy
Wesfarmers Health forecasts increased corporatisation of community pharmacy The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC’s) green light to Sigma Healthcare’s merger with Chemist Warehouse (CWH) will have a major impact …
Worst whooping cough year since vaccines introduced
“You’re doing a good job,” one infectious diseases expert says to pharmacists, encouraging them to help in the fight against whooping cough Australia is currently enduring its largest whooping cough …