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Onboarding for delivery
Transitional arrangement for electronic medication charts for residential aged care services to come into play from 1 July The Federal Department of Health is implementing an Electronic National Residential Medication …
Letter to the editor
An expert expresses concerns over weight management advice in a previous article I read, with some concern, a recent article in the AJP, titled The war on waistlines (AJP magazine, …
What does an RMMR achieve?
RMMR provision reduced some medicines, but not others, after a year in an aged care facility, study finds A large population-based examination of medicines use in Australian residential aged care …
Fines for RATs
TGA fines manufacturer for multiple regulatory infringements The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has issued eight infringement notices totalling $106,560 to a manufacturers, Hough Pharma, for allegedly failing to provide information …
The week in review
GP complaints, pharmacy’s response to state budgets, a sad day for the ‘pharmily’ and awards—here’s our roundup of this week’s news GP complaints Pharmacy hit back after GP groups once …
Politicians offer support to expanded practice
Politicians from either side of the political and state/federal divides have honoured the role of community pharmacy and acknowledged the need for increased scope of practice Speaking at a Pharmacy …
Technology: risk or reward?
A US pharmacy giant is shifting much of its prescription volume to be filled at automated centres, saying it will free up pharmacists’ time. Is this the future for community …
Conflict between pharmacy, GP groups fuels lack of change
Why does Australia lag behind other countries in seeing pharmacists move beyond their dispensing role? Key stakeholders speak up in new study Political tensions between pharmacy and GP groups—and within …
When RAT-testing for COVID, should you also swab your throat?
Should we also be using our rapid antigen test (RAT) to swab our throat, as some social media sources suggest? asks Thea Van De Mortel of Griffith University We’re now …
Vale Paul Mahoney
Sad day for the ‘pharmily’ with the passing of Paul Mahoney Australian pharmacy is mourning the passing of Paul Mahoney, a well-known and highly respected NSW pharmacist with long service …
A blitz on viruses
Pharmacy supplied oral antivirals a focus of government’s new campaign to boost COVID and influenza prevention, as uptake lags The Australian Government today launched an $11 million six-week campaign to …
‘The stress, burnout and fatigue on the ground is palpable.’
Once-off cash payments just the ‘first step’: More hospital pharmacists needed to support bed numbers as some states face chronic understaffing, burnout Hospital pharmacists have received some good news in …