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Scope of practice


Common passions for pharmacists and medicines safety makes Adjunct Associate Professor Steve Morris an ideal fit as PSA’s new CEO  Experienced healthcare executive and pharmacist. Steve Morris will take the …

Community pharmacies are set to play an important role in easing pressure on public hospitals through funding to stock palliative care medications  Pharmacies across rural and metropolitan South Australia will …

Medical magazine urges GPs to sign petition against the North Queensland Pharmacy Scope of Practice Pilot (NQPSPP)  Dubbing the NQPSPP as “a reckless experiment”, Australian Doctor is conducting a petition, …

The Australasian College of Pharmacy is offering NSW community pharmacists free accredited training for uncomplicated cystitis treatment The move follows the recent announcement by NSW Health that it would launch …

Pharmacists in Western Australia could see their scope of practice expand to include prescribing for urinary tract infections (UTIs) later this year  Community pharmacy leaders are working with the WA …

The Australian Pharmacy Council (APC) will host a stakeholder forum in Adelaide in April to get feedback on its draft accreditation standards for aged care and MMR pharmacist training  Stakeholders …

Australia’s pharmacy schools need better funding to promote the profession to school-leavers, according to Professor Trent Twomey, the national president of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia  Elevating pharmacy education programs …

While broader scope makes the job worthwhile “it’s not for the faint-hearted” warns Brit APP panelist The cost of setting up consulting rooms and other infrastructure, cost and workforce educational …

May’s federal Budget will provide answers to several questions relating to the pharmacy sector, Mark Butler, the Minister for Health and Aged Care says  Speaking during a doorstop interview at …

Pharmacy Guild of Australia leaders are in Canberra for the final parliamentary sitting week ahead of the federal Budget amid a Seventh Community Pharmacy Agreement funding crisis  With a funding …

Regulations around which vaccinations pharmacist immunisers are authorised to administer should be harmonised across Australia, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) believes  Authorising pharmacists to administer new vaccines as part …

Pharmacy interns working in participating pharmacies within the North Queensland Pharmacy Scope of Practice Pilot (NQPSPP), could be diagnosing patients by March 2024  Pharmacy graduates undergoing their intern training through …