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The Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s NSW Branch is welcoming the appointment of Ryan Park as the state’s new Health Minister  Announcing the appointment of his ministry, newly elections NSW Premier, …

Pharmacists are being urged to take advice from “modern day philosopher, Taylor Swift”, and “shake off” attacks from the medical profession’s peak bodies  Criticism of pharmacist prescribing pilots by the …

Improvements to community pharmacists pay and conditions are needed before they take on new tasks such as prescribing, Professional Pharmacists Australia (PPA) says  Data from a survey of PPA members shows that …

Authorising pharmacists to prescribe will expose employee pharmacists to “significant risks”, while delivering “poor patient health outcomes”, GPs warn  In a statement responding to workforce capacity concerns raised by Professional …

State and territory governments are being urged to following NSW and Queensland in conducting pharmacist prescribing trials  Pharmacists’ and nurse practitioners’ skills are being underutilised, while GPs are performing tasks …

Pharmacists in NSW will see their scope of practice expand no matter who wins this month’s state election  Letters from the leaders of the state’s two major parties to the …

Having shunned an invitation to play an active role in the development of accreditation standards for pharmacist prescriber training, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) will use a …

Data from the University of Canberra’s Pharmacists in Residential Aged Care Facilities (PiRACF) study shows on-site pharmacists can significantly reduce inappropriate use of medicines  With federal government’s on-site pharmacists in …

Changes to legislation authorising pharmacists in Queensland to administer influenza vaccines to children aged six-months and older is fuelling demand for immunisation training  Updates to Queensland’s Medicines and Poisons Act …

Proposed changes to paracetamol pack sizes are “unlikely to significantly impact the harms from overdose”, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) warns  While welcoming the Therapeutic Goods Administration’s …

Only those who can afford to pay will benefit from Tasmania’s new continued dispensing measures, rural pharmacists warn  The program, which allows community pharmacists to provide patients with full supplies …

Calls for the introduction of 60-day dispensing “would be a disaster for community pharmacy”, readers of the AJP warn  With double dispensing back on the government’s agenda in the lead-up …