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Another state likely to launch UTI trial this year
Pharmacists in Western Australia could see their scope of practice expand to include prescribing for urinary tract infections (UTIs) later this year Community pharmacy leaders are working with the WA …
APC to conduct aged care and MMR training standards consultation
The Australian Pharmacy Council (APC) will host a stakeholder forum in Adelaide in April to get feedback on its draft accreditation standards for aged care and MMR pharmacist training Stakeholders …
Gance wins Entrepreneur Of The Year award
CWH co-founder a “disruptive pioneer”—pips six others to regional gong from “big four” consultancy EY Chemist Warehouse co-founder and chairman, Jack Gance, has been named EY Entrepreneur Of The Year …
How pharmacists are helping Ukraine
Pharmacists in Ukraine desperately need medicines – but the way they were receiving them wasn’t initially helpful. One Australian pharmacy group stepped in to help Pharmaceutical Defence Limited (PDL) has …
Pharmacy schools need cash injection
Australia’s pharmacy schools need better funding to promote the profession to school-leavers, according to Professor Trent Twomey, the national president of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia Elevating pharmacy education programs …
‘We as a profession may need to adjust our thinking.’
A study that started as a light-hearted project has shone a light on pharmacists’ plans to quit the profession Who would be a pharmacist? A group of researchers from the …
Hydrocortisone supply to resume soon
The TGA says it is working with Alphapharm to address the shortage of all hydrocortisone tablet strengths The Therapeutic Goods Administration has advised that it is aware of the shortage …
What full scope pharmacy looks like: an English perspective
While broader scope makes the job worthwhile “it’s not for the faint-hearted” warns Brit APP panelist The cost of setting up consulting rooms and other infrastructure, cost and workforce educational …
World news wrapup: 29 March 2023
Pharmacists plead guilty to drugging colleague, causing crash; US pharmacist detained over shooting fears; Ontario expands pharmacy prescribing again Ankara, Turkiye: A pharmacist is suing two former colleagues, alleging that …
We can’t just switch off 7CPA programs – Butler
May’s federal Budget will provide answers to several questions relating to the pharmacy sector, Mark Butler, the Minister for Health and Aged Care says Speaking during a doorstop interview at …
Guild pleads for 7CPA funding boost
Pharmacy Guild of Australia leaders are in Canberra for the final parliamentary sitting week ahead of the federal Budget amid a Seventh Community Pharmacy Agreement funding crisis With a funding …
Pharmacists have proven themselves
Regulations around which vaccinations pharmacist immunisers are authorised to administer should be harmonised across Australia, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) believes Authorising pharmacists to administer new vaccines as part …