Sigma strategic pain necessary to improve outcomes: Ramsunder
CEO outlines path back to sustainability – and Amcal and DDS are front and centre of that plan Sigma Healthcare has been through “a significant period of necessary change” but …
Flourish in pharmacy: practical pathways to better teamwork, Part 2
Wherever we practise pharmacy, we all work as part of a team to look after our patients. Good teamwork in pharmacy and healthcare enhances patient care and increases job satisfaction. …
PSA makes Indigenous healthcare pledge
Gaps in healthcare services for Indigenous Australians need to be “urgently address” the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) believes A new position paper released the PSA reaffirmed its commitment to …
A Dermatologists’ guide to personalising acne treatment
When it comes to the treatment of acne, Pharmacists can often be the first point of contact for an acne sufferer seeking treatment and advice. It is important to understand …
A Dermatologists’ guide to holistic skincare routines with acne treatment
While treatment is a definitive therapeutic component in the management of acne, adjunctive skincare is just as important in alleviating symptoms and signs of disease, reducing the use of therapeutic …
When the going gets tough…the big start acquiring
Australia’s major banner groups are almost all heralding expansion of some description, but with rising interest rates and wages, significant inflation and the end of the COVID boom, what does …
The week in review
Two opposing forces lobbied for different ways to save patients money this week, while there was lots of medicines news and we looked at burnout in hospitals There was bad …
Community pharmacy incompatible with prescribing
Concerns about patient privacy and pharmacists’ workloads in community pharmacies are being flagged as reasons not to implement independent pharmacist prescribing Community pharmacies do not provide a suitable environment for …
Docs ‘gobsmacked’ to discover longstanding clause
In its latest salvo against the Pharmacy Guild, a doctor stakeholder group has slammed the remuneration adjustment mechanism in the 7CPA Doctor groups continue to lobby for 60-day dispensing and …
Pharmacy bodies declare support for Voice campaign
Leaders of two major pharmacy organisations are publicly backing the introduction of a First Nations Voice to Parliament Pharmacists are being urged to get behind the ‘Yes’ campaign ahead of …
‘The problem is they’re just going to get Ventolin.’
Stakeholders including pharmacists are warning that the change to criteria for prescribing fluticasone propionate will hurt less wealthy families – especially as we head into winter A change to how …
Pharmacist attacked with Jack Daniels amid crime crackdown
A pharmacist had to go to hospital with minor head injuries after a teenage thief threw cans of alcohol at her Channel Seven has reported on the Woodcroft, South Australia …