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ATAGI scraps prior infection rule for Covid boosters
Eligibility criteria for accessing a Covid-19 vaccine booster no longer require a six-month gap between a positive test and getting a shot Patients who would be eligible for a …
Pharmacy key to boosting kids flu vaccination rates
NCIRS director hails pharmacy as a solution to boosting influenza vaccination uptake among school-aged children Community pharmacies need to be promoted as destinations where children aged five years and older …
Action required to combat rural workforce crisis
Access to primary healthcare in rural areas is set to get worse in the coming years, if steps are not taken to encourage practitioners to go to the bush Steps …
To dip or not to dip?
A program delivered by pharmacists has seen positive results around reduction of unnecessary urine dipstick testing in aged care homes Pharmacist-led education to support behaviour change around urine dipstick testing …
Should pharmacies be replaced by online outlets?
Claim made in the mainstream media that Queensland’s recently passed Pharmacy Ownership Bill takes the state back to the last century Aaron Patrick, senior correspondent for the Australian Financial Review, …
Blurred lines
Can I be friends with my patients – or more than friends? What if I’m single and living in a one-pharmacy town? We investigate the boundaries of pharmacy relationships You …
Union calls for 5% wage increase
ACTU pushes for a 5% increase to award rates in its submission to the Annual Wage Review Pharmacists earning award rates could see their pay increase by 5% if the …
A thousand pharmacists in only five months
1000th pharmacist recognised as ANZCAP opens drop-in consultations to meet demand The Australian and New Zealand College of Advanced Pharmacy (ANZCAP) has formally recognised its 1000th pharmacist, while opening drop-in …
Advocating the profession’s value
The theme for World Pharmacists Day in September 2024 has been revealed “Pharmacists: Meeting global health needs” will be the theme of World Pharmacists Day on 25 September 2024, the International Pharmaceutical …
Only pharmacists opposed to double dispensing: MP
Opposition to 60-day dispensing appears to be restricted to pharmacists, Labor MP claims Excluding emails from pharmacists Labor backbencher, Graham Perrett, says there is “zero” opposition to the government’s 60-day …
‘Too much trust and confidence’ in doctors next door
A pharmacist, who was filling up to 350 scripts a shift alone, has told a tribunal how he was not always able to exercise his independent clinical judgment adequately when …
The rise of tapentadol
A new big health data study looks at the decline of subsidised opioid use since the 2020 changes: with one exception A new UNSW Sydney big health data study, published …