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World Pharmacy Council makes vaccination pitch
Community pharmacists should be authorised and funded to provide immunisations for all vaccine-preventable diseases, the World Pharmacy Council (WPC) believes. In its Vaccination services in community pharmacies report the …
World news wrapup: 2 February 2023
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GPs raise pharmacy vending machine idea again
“The time is now” to deregulate pharmacy, say GPs, spruiking supermarket pharmacy, online pharmacy, and reforms to the ownership and location rules – as well as research into automated dispensing …
Call to stop “online prescribing cowboys”
Two Guild leaders have referred to some telehealth operators as “cowboys,” with another pharmacist reporting a script clearly meant for misuse According to Pharmacy Guild Queensland branch president Chris Owen, …
Ending emergency supply measures not in patients’ interests
Letting the expanded emergency supply authority lapse will have an adverse impact on NSW’s health system, pharmacy leaders warn. The measure, which has been in force in NSW throughout …
Labor gains lion’s share of Guild donations
New data on political donations released by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) show the Pharmacy Guild of Australia shifted its support to Labor in 2021/22. In the lead-up to …
No option but to take industrial action: PPA
Union members to vote on protective action as enterprise agreement talks stall at National Pharmacies. Employee pharmacists at National Pharmacies stores will be balloted regarding industrial action over the …
TGA clamps down on unlawful advertising
Mobile intravenous vitamin service, Drip IV Australia, and an executive officer of the business, have been fined a combined $159,840 in relation to alleged unlawful advertising. The Therapeutic Goods …
PSA pitches $3m 4-year GP-pharmacist prescribing pilot
Budget submission angles for more regional non-dispensing pharmacist roles and MBS item numbers to support them A Federal Government $3 million funded GP-Pharmacist Collaborative Prescribing Pilot to create opportunities for …
Pharmacist-free Fridays see owner suspended
A Canadian pharmacist created a system whereby her store was open to the public on Fridays without a pharmacist being present Unregulated staff would be in the store performing pharmacy …
National Pharmacies’ staff set to vote on protected action
Professional Pharmacists Australia (PPA) will hold a protected action ballot of National Pharmacies employees after the Fair Work Commission (FWC) approved the move. Authorising the action, FWC Deputy President, …
Pain gender gap focus
FIP has highlighted the existence of a gender gap in pain management and the potential for pharmacists to close it The gap is outlined in a report of a meeting …