Poll: Patient pushback
Have you been receiving complaints from patients or noticed stockpiling behaviour as the codeine upschedule date approaches? This week, the Extended Hours Pharmacies Association (EHPA) urged its members to invite …
A side effect to the upschedule
With codeine-containing medicines going to prescription-only, has the time come to again restrict the sale of all ibuprofen products to pharmacies? Ron Batagol, PhC,FSHP,AGIA, Dip.Jnl. Pharmacist and Obstetric Medication and …
Do you charge for patient services and support?
With pharmacists increasingly providing professional services, more than half (60%) of respondents to an AJP poll say they provide a significant amount of services for free Community pharmacy finds itself …
Patients in pain
Pharmacy patients are complaining of being “treated like drug addicts” as codeine change awareness spreads, say extended hours pharmacists With the codeine upscheduling deadline of 1 February looming, the Extended …
Vale Geoff Vaughan
Former Victorian pharmacy dean and Australian Rugby international dies aged 84 Dr Geoffrey Vaughan AO, who was Dean of the Victorian College of Pharmacy (“VCP”) from 1979 to 1986, passed …
Winning ‘except-when’ status for codeine
Have you ever had to sell something that you didn’t quite believe? Tough isn’t it, says pharmacist Peter Feros But the scenario above is what we pharmacists are being asked …
MedsASSIST to be discontinued… this time, for good
With the Guild’s system to be shut down from the night of 31 January, what is the outlook for real-time prescription monitoring across the country? MedsASSIST – the real-time recording …
Poll: Do you charge?
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Women in leadership: My success story
NAPSA immediate past president Shefali Parekh shares her secrets to success and advice for other young women in pharmacy In the second year of my Bachelor of Pharmacy degree I …
OTC combination analgesics survey
Pharmacists working at community pharmacies in NSW, Tasmania and Victoria are being sought to aid recruitment for a University of New England student research project We are two fourth-year pharmacy …
BBC to investigate pharmacist workloads
In an investigative piece entitled “Boots: Pharmacists under Pressure?”, the broadcaster will look into concerns about workload pressures jeopardising patient safety Boots UK (formerly Boots the Chemists), trading as Boots, is …
“Wilful disregard of his professional obligations”
A NSW pharmacist dispensed up to 52,000 OxyContin 80mg tablets to a single patient in one year, and nearly 150,000 over four years The pharmacy owner, who cannot be named …