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NSW prescribing pilot a ‘breakthrough’ for women
Rural women will benefit from improved access to healthcare through the NSW pharmacy prescribing trial, a senior lecturer at the University of New England (UNE) believes With a growing shortage …
MBS access call gets backing of 2020
More than 2000 people have backed a petition calling for pharmacists to be given access to Medicare provider numbers Melbourne-based pharmacist, Pardeep Singh’s petition called on politicians to “recognise pharmacists …
Guild backs immigration rethink
Plans to shift Australia’s visa system’s focus from temporary workers to permanent migration are being welcomed by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia Speaking at the Australian Financial Review’s Workforce Summit …
Flood-affected pharmacies must be supported
Concerns are being raised over delays in processing flood relief payments to businesses, including a community pharmacy, four months after it was inundated Business owners affected by floods in regional …
LNP votes against supporting Queensland prescribing trial
Minister accused of misleading tweets over LNP’s stance on North Queensland Pharmacy Scope of Practice Pilot (NQPSPP) Speaking in the state parliament yesterday, Yvette D’Ath, Queensland Minister for Health, hit …
To fund or not to fund 24-hour pharmacies?
Governments in South Australia and the Northern Territory are adopting opposing views on funding 24-hour pharmacies South Australia’s state government will provide a total of $900,000 to three pharmacies to …
Pharmacy bodies say ‘yes’ to Voice
Calls for the introduction of a First National Voice to Parliament are being backed by major pharmacy organisations The Australian Pharmacy Council (APC) and trade union group Professional Pharmacists Australia …
‘You did nothing but claim credit’
A senior official from the Pharmacy Guild of Australia believes the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) is claiming undue credit in relation to the NSW prescribing pilot Gerard Benedet, …
RACGP, NACCHO aligned in enmity to pharmacist prescribing
Efforts to expand pharmacists’ scope of practice will adversely affect Indigenous patients’ healthcare two leading health bodies warn Assertions by the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACHHO)that the introduction …
Skerritt estimates hearing suspended five times
Outgoing Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) boss, Professor John Skerritt, endured an interrupted appearance at Senate Estimates yesterday The hearing was suspended five times in the space of an hour, as …
Ozempic shortages behind diabetes patients’ funeral fundraiser
Ongoing global shortages of diabetes medication, Ozempic (semaglutide), due to off-label prescribing has prompted one patient to start a GoFundMe campaign for his funeral. Diabetes patient, Stephen Callaghan, is …
PBS designed for a bygone era
Medicare reform must not come at the expense of improving other areas of Australia’s health system, including the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), Trent Zimmerman, warns. Writing in The Guardian former …