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Poll: Is pharmacy ready for the COVID vaccine?
Is pharmacy ready for its planned role in Phase 2 of the COVID vaccine rollout? We want to find out what our readers believe Health Minister Greg Hunt has said …
CWH lease matter to head to WA Supreme Court
A high-profile pharmacist was set to lease a new pharmacy premises and even introduced the necessary doctor to the developer… but was then told the lease would go to a …
Health Department agrees to six-month grace period
Leeway offered to pharmacy during transition to Active Ingredient Prescribing Pharmacists are being urged to prepare for changes coming into effect from Monday 1 February 2021, which will see mandatory …
Council wanted $11k over advertising spat
The owner of a Melbourne pharmacy has been told to pay his local Council more than $5000 after he installed unauthorised billboards around his shop The Victorian Civil and Administrative …
Local study critical
The Pharmacy Guild has congratulated James Cook University as the institution reports a positive response to its expanded pharmacy program Last week James Cook University reported that it has seen …
TGA moves to reassure Australians on COVID-19 vaccine
The regulator has pointed to its “extremely rigorous” approval process after reports of some deaths in elderly individuals in Norway vaccinated with the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine The TGA has emphasised …
Withholding medicines an abuse of human rights: AMSA, NAPSA
Medical and pharmacy students call on Department of Home Affairs to commit to timely and consistent provision of medicines following allegations from immigration centre detainees The Australian Medical Students’ Association …
Wizard names its winners
Wizard Pharmacy has welcomed another three new franchises to its group in Western Australia, and named its top members With three new stores in addition to the six opened in …
Spotlight on stress
Women are healthier than men but are more stressed, a new pharmacy report finds – and it identifies a surprising group of heavier smokers Priceline has released its Australia’s Health …
Pharmacy ‘mogul’ sentenced over multimillion-dollar fraud scheme
A co-owner of numerous compounding pharmacies has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and money laundering Wade Ashley Walters, 54, from Mississippi, US, …
‘What we urgently need is real support.’
The presidents of all five international organisations that make up the World Health Professions Alliance have called for continued support for health and care workers in 2021 in a joint …
Reprimand after lethal script
A pharmacist has been reprimanded after she dispensed a lethal dose of methotrexate, despite her concerns, to a man who then died The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has heard …