Pharmacists take to the streets
Around 85% of German pharmacies closed on Wednesday to protest funding shortfalls and greater workloads German media has reported on the Berlin protests which saw pharmacists take to the streets …
Dealing with headache
What’s the difference between chronic tension headache and migraine? What are the treatment options? Can they be taken in pregnancy? Chris Brooker investigates “I’ve got a headache”: it’s something all …
60-day dispensing high on the Pharmacy Connect agenda
Conference will take an in-depth look at the biggest issue on the pharmacy agenda With the Albanese Government’s proposed 60-day dispensing program the main topic of concern for all those …
Chemist Warehouse’s UK expansion plans
Jack Gance outlines how the CWH group became the dominant force in Australian community pharmacy Chemist Warehouse founder Jack Gance has made it clear, seemingly for the first time, that …
‘We’ll be left with the Woolworths and Coles of pharmacies’
Queensland MP Bob Katter has doubled down on comments made in Parliament, calling double dispensing a deregulation “nightmare” In Parliament on 13 June, Katter had asked Health Minister Mark Butler …
Patent medicines debate heats up as the country flounders
June 1893; poisons, flooding and the worst depression in Australian history It’s 1893, Australia is still eight years away from Federation, the AJP was still the Australasian Journal Of Pharmacy, …
Could 60-day dispensing increase online CM buying?
Pharmacists conducting medicines reviews often come across complementary medicines and “weird stuff” that aren’t right for patients…but how can they best advise on them? If double dispensing helps fuel medicine …
Butler claims longer script lengths improve compliance
Nationals leader David Littleproud has demanded the Health Minister produce modelling around ‘pharmacies that he’s going to destroy’ Littleproud was ejected from the House of Representatives after repeatedly interrupting the …
How policy change will affect residential aged care
Michael Bonner, clinical pharmacist, pharmacy owner and CEO of Choice Aged Care, talks to AJP Podcast host Carlene McMaugh about the “seismic” policy change of 60-day dispensing He’s confident that …
A reminder for hospital pharmacists about reporting incidents
Pharmacist indemnity insurer PDL is raising awareness with hospital pharmacists about the need to report incidents to their individual indemnity insurer This call has been prompted by a recent review …
Funding farrago: Pharmacists in aged care
There was much anticipation for the pharmacists in aged care program, but delays have pushed back its commencement, and anger is growing about a seeming backflip over how the program …
The art of authentic networking
Dr Tahnee Bridson, 2022 QLD Young Australian of the Year and Founder, Hand-n-Hand Peer Support Inc talks meaningful peer connection Networking can be key to increasing your career knowledge, job …