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Strike wins wholesaler workers 7% increase
EBOS-owned hospital supplier agrees to pay rise after concerted industrial action Around 100 workers employed by hospital supplies distributor Onelink will receive a 7% pay rise after taking industrial action …
Chemist Warehouse to take 10.7% of Sigma
And Sigma has scored CWH 5-year supply deal worth $3b in first year In the latest step in Chemist Warehouse’s growing direct and indirect influence over Sigma Healthcare, the pharmacy …
Trust needs to be restored before 8CPA talks
Labor is unlikely to open talks on the Eighth Community Pharmacy Agreement (8CPA) without an apology from the Pharmacy Guild of Australia Concerns around an alleged breach of confidentiality by …
Grant winners named
The PSA has announced the three recipients of the inaugural PSA Faye McMillan Conference Grant The grant will fund the three to attend PSA’s National Conference, PSA23. Professor Faye McMillan AM …
Guild refutes Covid vax data mining claims
Suggestions that the Pharmacy Guild of Australia is misusing patient data gathered through the Covid-19 vaccination campaign are incorrect, a spokesperson says Department of Health officials believe it is “likely” …
Sigma score $3b. Chemist Warehouse supply contract
And CWH will acquire more than 10% of Sigma as part of the five year supply deal Sigma Healthcare has signed an agreement with Chemist Warehouse (CWH) to supply both …
Pharmacist’s ‘elaborate and systematic’ scheme to get opioids
A former pharmacist used a copied key to get into his former workplace, fake scripts and take fentanyl – all by the light of his mobile phone The Pharmacy Board …
Shakespeare suggests Websterpak substitute
Nurses working in residential aged care facilities could add assisting patients with their medications to their tasks to limit costs, a Department of Health and Aged Care official says Funding …
Vale Robert Elliott
PDL has paid tribute to a former Queensland Local Advisory Committee member, Robert Arthur Elliott Elliot has passed away peacefully, aged 89, on 22 May 2023. Pharmaceutical Defence Limited said …
More Melbourne real estate for Chemist Warehouse
Property currently housing a CWH store purchased for $5.75m; report One of the owners of Chemist Warehouse has purchased a large site which currently houses a CWH store, some 12 …
Much-needed pay rise falls short
Award wages set to climb 5.75% from 1 July Pharmacy staff covered by the Pharmacy Industry Award 2020 will see their pay increase by 5.75%, on the back of the …
Guild underestimating 60-day dispensing impacts
Reductions in pharmacy opening hours and cutbacks in services may only be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the impacts of double dispensing Senate Estimates hears Grim …