CPD year ends in 7 days
Have you got all your points yet? AJP offers a simple way to blitz your CPD points before 30 September Take your pick from some of our most recent CPD …
How Priceline Pharmacy plans to dominate the beauty space
API is competing in the pharmacy retail space by boosting its health and beauty offering, claiming to have Australia’s biggest loyalty program in this area with 7 million members Clever …
Diagnosing pharmacy’s terminology issues
Does pharmacy have a problem with the way it thinks about, and refers to, patient diagnosis? Glenn Guilfoyle and Jenny Blair thinks it does, and that it may have unintended …
The week in review
It’s been a busy week in community pharmacy, with Ramsay Health and residential aged care under the spotlight First, there was regulatory news: Health Minister Greg Hunt announced changes to …
Agenda Setters: Amy Page
AJP chats with Amy Page, who was voted by readers as pharmacy’s second leading Agenda Setter The Agenda Setters campaign asked AJP readers to vote for the pharmacists they feel are showing …
Priceline Pharmacy to make its stores ‘dementia-friendly’
The banner group will be training pharmacists, changing physical aspects of the store and designating ‘quiet areas’ to help support people with dementia Priceline Pharmacy is in the process of …
Smoke shop pharmacist pleads guilty
A West Australian pharmacist has pleaded guilty to a number of charges of illegally supplying synthetic cannabis Hoang Nam Nguyen was facing nearly two dozen charges pertaining to synthetic cannabis …
Nine ways to boost rural pharmacy?
To solve the shortage of pharmacists in rural Victoria, pharmacists must be treated better, says PPA president Earlier this week, Victoria’s Shadow Minister for Health Mary Wooldridge and Shadow Minister …
Hayfever shame impacts lives
More than a fifth of hayfever sufferers say the condition leads them to disengage with social activities James Nevile, Amcal senior pharmacist, is urging pharmacists and other health professionals to …
Clinical tips: dementia
Pharmacists need to be vigilant when it comes to drug-drug interactions to which people with dementia are vulnerable, writes Ben Basger Drug–drug interactions (DDIs) are an important reason for admission …
Getting the right location
Flexibility is the key to new location rules changes, Minister says Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt says changes to the pharmacy location rules will achieve flexibility for pharmacy owners and …
Keeping to the standard
Evidence that hospital pharmacists can prescribe to the same standards as doctors: study New Australia research provides low to moderate evidence that pharmacists can prescribe to the same standards as …