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Docs claim ‘dire consequences’ from interstate UTI services
The stoush over Queensland’s pharmacist Urinary Tract Infection service has moved interstate, as NSW and WA head towards implementing something similar – and the AMA protests the prospect Queensland has …
Is Amazon’s healthcare business stumbling?
Online retail giant loses founders of its pharmacy operation only weeks after pulling plug on primary care business Amazon has lost the two founders of PillPack, the online pharmacy business …
Backing the next generation
PDL announces its student grant winners for 2022, with four pharmacists-in-training to be supported to attend an event of their choice After a record number of applications and very high-quality …
Location rules ‘could be changed by governments immediately:’ report
Rules help “establish local monopolies” and have left population-to-pharmacy ratios 50% worse than when introduced, says Productivity Commission Location and ownership rules have been slammed as uncompetitive and leading to …
Vic pharmacists to give monkeypox jab
Victorian pharmacist immunisers get the go-ahead to provide more vaccines The Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s Victoria Branch has welcomed the decision by the Victorian Department of Health and the Andrews …
Queensland’s UTI service made permanent
The Guild calls for the permanent UTI service to go nationwide, while the AMA encourages doctors to report “complications” from the service to the Health Ombudsman The Queensland Urinary Tract …
The week in review
Movement on the PBS co-payment cuts, plus the end of a longstanding Aussie pharmacy brand and of an accreditation body all made news this week The planned cuts to the …
Can we solve the Covid booster shortfall?
Millions of Australians still haven’t had their COVID boosters. What message could convince them now? The Halton independent review of Australia’s COVID vaccine and treatment procurement has been handed to the …
Where have the pharmacists gone?
Pharmacy Board quarterly data shows a drop in the number of registered pharmacists The number of registered pharmacists recorded by the Pharmacy Board of Australia has dropped in the quarter …
Monday newsletter update
There will be no AJP daily newsletter on Monday 3 October Due to the Labour Day public holiday in New South Wales, we will not be publishing an AJP Daily …
How did a four-week-old baby overdose on methadone?
An inquiry into a dispensing error, which saw compounded omeprazole for a baby contaminated with methadone, has found a NZ pharmacist did not dispense methadone safely New Zealand Deputy Health …
Prenatal paracetamol findings ‘remain unclear’: experts
A study has linked paracetamol use in pregnancy to attention problems and sleep issues in children, but should the findings impact treatment? US researchers have found an association between paracetamol …