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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 …
World news wrapup: 14 October 2021
Convictions upheld for pharmacists who claimed they were like “mere shipping clerks;” US retailers gets out of pharmacy sector; mechanic who saved pharmacy delivery lauded Boston, Massachusetts: Two pharmacists involved …
Doc was in ‘very dark place’ after falsifying script
After surviving cancer, a health professional began to prescribe and use opioids illicitly A medical practitioner has been reprimanded and his registration suspended for three months after he presented falsified …
‘It’s about time we as a profession gather data to advance our professional services.’
COVID-19 has provided a key opportunity to gather insights into patients’ thoughts on vaccination A group of pharmacy academics and PhD students from the University of South Australia are exploring …
Lockdown drives uptake
eRx Script Exchange reports its 20 millionth electronic script, as new data shows how lockdowns drove change Electronic prescription use has surged across Australia from June, spurred on by pharmacies …