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The week in review
Canberra was the focus this week, as pharmacists received King’s Birthday honours… while 60-day dispensing was a hot topic in Parliament There were fiery exchanges in Parliament about 60-day dispensing …
Minister told to ‘get your big-boy pants on,’ talk to pharmacists
Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie has changed her mind over 60-day dispensing – though “who really cares” if a Chemist Warehouse loses out, she says Lambie spoke out in the Senate …
Pharmacists take to the streets
Around 85% of German pharmacies closed on Wednesday to protest funding shortfalls and greater workloads German media has reported on the Berlin protests which saw pharmacists take to the streets …
Chemist Warehouse’s UK expansion plans
Jack Gance outlines how the CWH group became the dominant force in Australian community pharmacy Chemist Warehouse founder Jack Gance has made it clear, seemingly for the first time, that …
‘We’ll be left with the Woolworths and Coles of pharmacies’
Queensland MP Bob Katter has doubled down on comments made in Parliament, calling double dispensing a deregulation “nightmare” In Parliament on 13 June, Katter had asked Health Minister Mark Butler …
Patent medicines debate heats up as the country flounders
June 1893; poisons, flooding and the worst depression in Australian history It’s 1893, Australia is still eight years away from Federation, the AJP was still the Australasian Journal Of Pharmacy, …
Could 60-day dispensing increase online CM buying?
Pharmacists conducting medicines reviews often come across complementary medicines and “weird stuff” that aren’t right for patients…but how can they best advise on them? If double dispensing helps fuel medicine …
Butler claims longer script lengths improve compliance
Nationals leader David Littleproud has demanded the Health Minister produce modelling around ‘pharmacies that he’s going to destroy’ Littleproud was ejected from the House of Representatives after repeatedly interrupting the …
The art of authentic networking
Dr Tahnee Bridson, 2022 QLD Young Australian of the Year and Founder, Hand-n-Hand Peer Support Inc talks meaningful peer connection Networking can be key to increasing your career knowledge, job …
Is yours Australia’s top pharmacy?
Nominations are now open for the prestigious Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s 2024 Pharmacy of the Year awards Members of the public, as well as those in the profession, are invited …
Call for abstracts
The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia is calling for abstracts for its upcoming Cairns conference Abstract submissions – original research, pharmacy practice and case reports – for Medicines Management …
API/Priceline pay shortfall review nears completion
Almost ten months since the investigation was announced A review of payroll practices at Australian Pharmaceutical Industries (API) after “historical payment errors” were flagged is nearing completion, according to the …