Western NSW pharmacies in after-hours pilot
After-hours help for customers is the focus of a new partnership between the Pharmacy Guild and the Western NSW Primary Health Network.The two are piloting a program for upskilling pharmacy …
A compelling vision
Crafting a compelling service vision statement … avoiding the fluff and bland motherhood statementsA progressive, medium sized, neighbourhood shopping centre, branded pharmacy recently shunned its brand’s mission statement as meaningless …
Blackmores launches new online tool
The free peer-reviewed guide can be used “on the pharmacy floor” to check interactions between complementary and prescriptions medicinesBlackmore’s Complementary Medicine Interactions Guide will provide pharmacists with current, evidence-based information …
Pharmacists willing to go west: poll
While it isn’t everybody’s first choice, a significant number of Australian pharmacists would consider leaving the city behind in a bid to further their career, a recent AJP.com.au poll suggests.At …
Morphine overdose ‘enough to kill a whole paddock of horses’
Daughter of a woman who died from hospital overdose says the doctor ignored a pharmacist who queried the doseA Tasmanian coroner has highlighted significant shortcomings of a hospital pharmacy following …
S8 handling criticised again
Handling of S8 medicines has again been highlighted by the Victorian Pharmacy Authority in its latest circular“Poor record keeping of transactions of Schedule 8 poisons identified during inspections has continued …
The week in review
We take a look back at the week that was in pharmacyThis was a significant week for medicines labelling, as the TGA announced it will be implementing two new labelling …
Woman accidentally locked inside airport pharmacy almost misses flight
She was trapped inside the Boots store for nearly an hour and almost missed her flight to GreeceThe incident occurred last Saturday at around 9.30pm when the store closed its …
Hep C medicines: too high a price to pay?
One of the key health-related tasks of the re-elected Coalition government will be to ensure a solution to the supply of the expensive new Hepatitis C medicines.The scale of the …
Tackling the ‘prescribing cascade’ in seniors
Older Australians may not be aware that they are on a ‘prescribing cascade’, where they take one medicine and have an adverse reaction, so are put on another medicine, says …
AJP now on Saturday
We wish to introduce the AJP Daily Saturday matinee editionSuch has been the response to our AJP Daily newsletter since its launch on 1 March, that we are now offering …
Bayer pushes for downscheduling of vardenafil
Making ED drugs available through pharmacists could prevent men resorting to dangerous online versions, says the companyBayer has applied to the TGA to consider downscheduling the PDE5 inhibitor vardenafil (Levitra) up …