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Scope expansion key to boosting access to care
Health minister keen to embrace skincare role for pharmacists to ease pressure on health system Extending pharmacists’ scope of practice to include the treatment of certain skin conditions will improve access …
Skincare next step in scope expansion
Pharmacists to treat four skin conditions under expanded scope trial Community pharmacists in NSW will be able to prescribe treatments for certain skin conditions from March 2024, under the next …
The week in review
60-day dispensing, the 8CPA, antimicrobial awareness and regulatory issues all made the news this week It was World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week, and FIP issued new policy, saying pharmacists should …
Pharmacist faces forgery charges
Queensland’s health ombudsman has taken immediate action against a pharmacist, including banning her from having her own personal medicines dispensed in a workplace Conditions have been imposed on the pharmacist’s …
‘Recognition for every pharmacist, everywhere’
ANZCAP independent program opens in Australia The second major program of the Australian and New Zealand College of Advanced Pharmacy (ANZCAP) has launched, with learning experiences now live as the …
Good boy brings pharmacy department joy
His poster at the recent SHPA conference won the people’s choice award, but Travis Phelan wants the credit to go to his partner in paws-itivity: Bernie the chocolate Labrador Phelan, …
Ferrari-loving pharmacist bailed
PBS fraud allegations see pharmacy owner barred from going within 200m of his store A Sydney-based pharmacy owner with a passion for supercars is no longer allowed to enter his …
Penalty reduced for long-past misconduct
After a pharmacist appealed a decision to cancel his registration for three years, patients and colleagues were left thinking he had been “rubbed out,” a tribunal has heard Western Australia’s …
Pregnancy categories campaigner plans to ‘make as much noise as possible’
A presentation on the pregnancy categories saw an unexpected appearance by the head of the TGA – and showed how appetite for change is growing Hao Vo-Tran, publications and medicines …
60-day dispensing hit staff morale
Impacts of 60-day dispensing are driving staff morale to new lows, the Community and Pharmacy Support Group (CAPS) reports Uncertainty around future revenue figures stemming from the government’s double dispensing …
EBOS petcare bid falls over
Lack of enthusiasm from investors pegged as major factor in distributor withdrawing from Greencross purchase The anticipated $3.75 billion deal which would have seen pharmaceutical distributor EBOS buy up the …
WATCH: Risk management processes in pharmacy—compounding and beyond
PDL officers and the MEDISCA CPD coordinator and compounding pharmacist answer your questions on risk management processes in pharmacy During this webinar, Patricia Ullmann from MEDISCA is joined by Gary …