PDL Update
2017 PDL Directors Election for the State of New South Wales This year voting will be required to elect one (1) Director for the State of New South Wales (with …
Call to extend NIP to pharmacies
This year’s severe flu season has highlighted that pharmacy can do more to help boost vaccination rates, says the Guild’s David Quilty And extending the National Immunisation Program to pharmacy …
Paperwork, rule changes barriers to workplace safety
A worrying 81% of Australian small businesses don’t fully understand their workplace safety obligations The Employsure Workplace Safety Index, conducted by Employsure, also found that only half of small businesses …
Pharmacy assistant union loses penalty rates bid
Two unions have lost a bid to overturn the FWC’s decision to cut penalty rates for pharmacy, retail and hospitality workers The Federal Court has ruled that the FWC met …
Which intervention changed docs’ antibiotic prescribing?
American researchers trialed three interventions to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing… and two helped significantly Jason N. Doctor, of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, looked at how three behavioural …
Pharmacy in any direction
Whether you’re a first year student, have just finished your degree, or have over 30 years’ experience, it can’t be denied that the pharmacy world is changing, writes Sandra Minas …
Would you work in an ‘underground town’?
What life is like as a pharmacist working in this built-into-the-earth town Coober Pedy is an outback opal mining town in northern South Australia, where the desert climate has temperatures …
Guild commercial interest risking patients: Kruys
A high-profile GP has accused the Guild of being a “disruptive factor in healthcare” over the codeine debate RACGP Queensland chair Dr Edwin Kruys has written on his Doctor’s Bag …
Sigma wins $40m in tenders
Sigma Hospital Services has won the tender to provide pharmaceutical products to Northern Health Sigma is now set to supply pharmacy products to Northern Health’s four major healthcare campuses located …
The distance between us
Are men and women so different? How do health outcomes and risk factors differ between the sexes? The answer may surprise you The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has …
Cute shopper stars in youth tourism push
A koala who popped into a Tocumwal pharmacy has become a star of a new Tourism Australia campaign In August, the koala ambled through the doors of the Tocumwal Guardian …
Bid to halve meds errors
The WHO aims to reduce medication errors by 50% worldwide within five years A new global initiative for error reduction was launched in Brisbane today, as part of a push …