Tambassis joins ASX-listed firm’s board
Consumer healthcare business names ex-Guild national president as its new non-executive chair Wellnex Life has appointed former Pharmacy Guild of Australia national president, George Tambassis, as its in-coming chair. The …
PharmX names Bastas alternate director
DBG Health chief commercial officer, Alexander “Sandy” Mellis, joins PharmX board as a non-executive and independent alternate director for Dennis Bastas PharmX Technologies has announced the appointment of Alexander Mellis …
False alarm or false comfort?
Community pharmacy is now in a period of false comfort, after the signing of the 8CPA. But it would take only a small systemic change to tip the industry into …
NDIS: the struggle to include pharmacists
Consultant pharmacists can now provide home medicines reviews and residential management reviews to NDIS recipients—but they still face barriers and hurdles to providing care. Megan Haggan takes a look at …
The week in review
Cost of living was again the focus this week, with the third tranche of 60-day dispensing medicines becoming available The third tranche of medicines became available under 60-day dispensing, prompting …
Slade secures provisional AdPha accreditation
AdPha grants “group-wide” provision accreditation for Slade Pharmacy to run its resident training program Hospital pharmacy group, Slade Pharmacy has received national accreditation to deliver the Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) …
SA move enhances national consistency: PSA
Pharmacists in South Australia are now able to administer medicines to their patients, the state’s office of the chief pharmacist has confirmed The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia welcomed the announcement, …
Cost-of-living measures ‘do not compete’: Department of Health
Patient savings delivered by cutting the PBS general co-payment and 60-day dispensing are “not directly comparable”, health department spokesperson says Cheaper medicines policies implemented by the government are designed …
NSW leapfrogs Queensland for broadest scope
GP shortage prompts state government to accelerate expansion of pharmacists’ scope of practice Pharmacists in NSW will soon be able to treat patients for a broad range of conditions as …
Costs putting conference attendance out of reach
Pharmacy may be one of the healthcare system’s most accessible points, but rising costs are making the profession’s conferences inaccessible for many Registration fees and rising travel and accommodation costs …
How to survive telephone shopping and video phones
There’s careless whispers coming from Canberra about a potential reduction in the number of pharmacies in Australia, as AJP goes back to the future of the first Guild-Government agreement It’s …
PBS fraud pharmacist ‘was at risk of losing everything’
In cancelling a pharmacist’s registration, a tribunal says that if his financial fears could factor into his defrauding the PBS, other pharmacists could do the same Between January 2018 and …