Stephen King drops out of APP
Professor Stephen King has advised that he will no longer be presenting at next week’s APP2017 conference Professor King, chair of the Remuneration and Regulation Review, was to have presented …
Pharmacy’s expo brings the community together
Samford Chemmart Pharmacy has organised its fourth Samford Health and Wellbeing Expo in a row, featuring more than 60 stalls Samford Chemmart, which won the Community Engagement award in the …
Get on stage at APP
Must-see this year at APP? Visit the AJP media stage and enter our prize draw This year AJP is covering the APP conference like never before, bringing you the speakers, …
Pharmacist vaccination: where we are now
Thousands of pharmacists are now accredited to deliver jabs across the country This week the PSA announced it has clocked over 2,350 pharmacists in Australia who have completed its Immunisation …
Our members lead the way
PDL is 100% owned by its pharmacist members and is Australia’s leading choice for Pharmacist Professional Liabilities Insurance (PI) cover As Australia’s first national pharmacy body, PDL was established over …
Forum: What does ‘dispensed’ mean to YOU?
“i speak with many young pharmacists (and most pharmacists are young to me these days) and I have observed these new comers place a different meaning to the term ‘dispensed’ …
Commercially available products: to compound or not to compound?
To comply with regulations and guidelines, compounding pharmacies need to understand circumstances that restrict compounding commercially available products. By Patricia Ullmann, compounding pharmacist Learning objectives After completing this CPD activity, …
What’s wrong with drug packaging?
Life would be so much easier—and safer—if drug packaging was designed with pharmacists in mind, writes Angelo Pricolo Sometimes we walk around the dispensary looking at things and wonder why …
Greg Hunt to open APP
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia and the APP organising committee have announced that the Federal Minister for Health, the Hon Greg Hunt MP, will attend APP2017 APP Chairman Kos Sclavos …
The 12 priority pathogens that pose the greatest health risk
WHO today published its first list of antibiotic-resistant “priority pathogens” – a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health The list was drawn …
NPS launches COPD educational program
NPS MedicineWise is launching a new educational program on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for health professionals Recognising that COPD can be a complex and challenging condition for health professionals to …
Cert II enrolments open
Enrolments are now open for the fourth intake of the government subsidised Certificate II in Community Pharmacy (SIR20112) training Available under the Queensland Government’s Community Work Skills Initiative, the program …