Medicines sector reforms deliver consumer benefits and a sustainable PBS
Consumers, taxpayers and the national health system will benefit from the significant savings being delivered by medicine suppliers since 1 April, say Medicines Australia, the Generic and Biosimilar Medicines Association, …
Happy 130th birthday!
AJP is celebrating a special birthday Australia’s oldest journal of record – the Australian Journal of Pharmacy – is turning 130 this year. The first edition of the then Australasian …
Not enough women at the top: poll
Women are not represented well enough at the leadership level in the pharmacy industry, say 70% of AJP readers. Following a lot of discussion at the recent APP2016 conference about …
Welcome to the AJP Discussion Forum!
The new AJP Discussion Forum has launched and can now be accessed here. Commenting on the launch, former AusPharm owner Mark Dunn said: “The new Forum format looks good and, …
Collaborate to manage pain
Collaboration and communication with patients is key to helping legitimate pain patients, with real-time monitoring useful for catching misusers of codeine only. Most people who become dependent on over-the-counter codeine …
AJP Support Pack April
The April AJP Support Pack is about to hit pharmacy counters… and this month features Glucerna® Triple Care Glucerna® Triple Care – a valuable part of a diabetes management …
The devil is in the detail
Details lacking from primary care reform plan While most health stakeholders have given support to the Federal governments new primary care reform package, concerns have been raised about its lack …
Pharmacists key in avoidable readmissions: Guild
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia has welcomed the focus on avoidable hospital readmissions in today’s COAG Communique. In the Communique, Government leaders identified the disturbing fact that far too many …
GP moves in with pharmacy
With collaboration between GPs and pharmacists being strongly encouraged, pharmacists are moving into GP clinics – but in one Western Sydney location, it’s the GP who is about to move …
T-cell discovery brings universal flu jab closer
Researchers are one step closer to creating a universal, one-shot influenza vaccine following the discovery that T cells, essential in the immune response to influenza, can recognise and attack emerging, …
CMs can contribute to health revolution
As state and territory leaders meet in Canberra today to discuss reforms to Medicare to improve care offered to Australians suffering from chronic disease, Carl Gibson from Complementary Medicines Australia …
Absence from work note inadequate for absence from court
An absence from work certificate obtained from a pharmacist has been deemed “plainly inadequate” to obtain an adjournment from the Migration Review Tribunal, now the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. Nyarna Kyaw …