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Self-care as 60-day starts
With only days to go before 60-day dispensing is due to come into being, it’s time to put some plans in place to reduce the burden on pharmacists, says one …
Trains, planes or automobiles: just get to Canberra
Pharmacists are being urged to make their way to Canberra to protest the government’s 60-day dispensing policy on 4 September “Attendance is the most valuable thing you can do” organisers …
WholeLife aims for medicinal cannabis revolution
WholeLife Pharmacy and Healthfoods has announced a partnership which it says will transform how patients look at medicinal cannabis The partnership is with One Health Clinics, which it describes as …
Let doctors diagnose and pharmacists prescribe
Pharmacist prescribing could cut medication use and improve patient outcomes, expert claims Patients could be better off if doctors were to deliver diagnoses and leave decisions around medications to pharmacists, …
Hospital pharmacy ‘initial teething problems’ addressed, says ACT Labor
The ACT’s consolidation of pharmacy inventory management systems have been attacked as a ‘debacle’ by the Canberra Liberals Health minister Rachel Stephen-Smith’s office has responded to criticism by the Canberra …
Tackling deprescribing concerns: pharmacists raise awareness
If a patient is making jokes about taking so many medicines they “rattle”…could they be open to deprescribing? Many older people are less resistant to deprescribing than a lot of …
Consistent approach and collaborative care needed: SHPA
SHPA welcome a review into the role of health professionals in prescribing to strengthen Australia’s strained health system The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia has welcomed the federal government’s announcement …
‘It is not possible to do more for less’
It’s time for pharmacists to be able to work to their full potential, says the health minister – but one stakeholder asks for the certainty of true investment in the …
Intergenerational Report highlights need for full scope
Australia urgently needs to empower pharmacists to work to their full scope of practice, to ease pressure on the health system Utilising the full range of pharmacists’ skills and knowledge …
CAPS targets Butler’s constituency
Pharmacists are looking to take their fight against 60-day dispensing to the minister for health’s constituency office Organisers of the Community and Pharmacy Support Group (CAPS) are searching for a …
World news wrapup: 24 August 2023
Pharmacist in alleged arsenic poisoning plot; New Jersey pharmacist takes out world public speaking crown; complementary meds scrutiny in Canada Hyderabad, India: A pharmacist has been accused of killing his …
HIV meds now free or subsidised through hospital pharmacy
Privacy and certainty are among two key considerations in recent changes, which mean hospital pharmacists can dispense free or subsidised HIV treatment for people without Medicare Changes to HIV treatment …