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Pharmacy owner hit with Ministerial legal bill
Federal Court affirms unsuccessful challenge to Health Minister’s discretionary powers must be paid by applicant A pharmacy owner who opposed the Health Minister’s discretionary power in allowing pharmaceutical benefits to …
The week in review
The pharmacy sector was looking to the future this week, as lockdowns begin to ease and vaccination numbers continue to grow The Pharmacy Guild‘s Trent Twomey had some advice to …
Guild partners for coal industry health
The NSW coal mining industry’s health organisation, CS Health, is partnering with community pharmacists The agreement means COVID-19 vaccination doses will be available with little or no wait times, close …
Baricitinib update
New monograph released to guide safe treatment of serious COVID-19 symptoms The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia has brought forward the release of streamlined information on the safe administration …
API acquisition joust not over yet
Wesfarmers the front runners but Sigma still in the running as takeover battle rumbles on When Wesfarmers bought W.H.Soul Pattinson’s 19.3% share of Australian Pharmaceutical Industries (API) in the first …
Pharmacists dropped from veterans’ hotline
Cuts made to pharmacists working at veterans’ medicines hotline, but more PAs employed instead The Department of Veterans Affairs have significantly reduced the number of pharmacists working for a medicines …
‘Why not equal pay for equal work?’
Booster doses have been unlocked for community pharmacies, but this owner says the remuneration is a “slap in the face” after all the hard work they’ve put in during the …
Poll: rapid antigen testing kits in pharmacy
It’s expected that from next month, rapid antigen tests will be widely available in pharmacies. What do you think? In late September, the Therapeutic Goods Administration announced that it would …
ACT pharmacists honoured
The ACT has honoured pharmacists in its Allied Health Excellence Awards, with one taking out the top award John Wsol, lead pharmacist for education at Calvary Public Hospital Bruce, has …
The pharmacy paradigm shift
Digital disruption and the pandemic have combined to create new expectations among healthcare consumers, and pharmacists will ignore them at their peril, says Guild president Community pharmacists will …
Health leaders recognised
Pharmacist researcher, Queensland CHO and policy expert honoured with awards from Pharmacy Guild Qld branch at reception attended by Premier, Opposition leader Leaders in the health field have been recognised …