The week in review
This week the headlines were all about vaccination, and the future of pharmacy with submissions to the National Medicines Policy Review This week we reported on submissions to the National …
Driving the agenda
Erica Tong has been at the forefront of pharmacy’s participation in the COVID vaccine rollout. She talks about her ground-breaking work in this and other areas of practice development Dr …
Key role in diabetes
FIP has released a new resource looking at how pharmacists can help prevent diabetes The role that pharmacists can play in preventing the projected rise in diabetes to 700 million …
‘Blatant abuse’ of pharmacist position
A pharmacist who supplied nearly $2 million worth of medicines to criminals, and pretended to be another pharmacist when he was investigated, has been struck off the register Balkeet Singh …
The top ten
What were our readers looking at over over the previous month? Legal and regulatory issues and anger at other professions criticisms of pharmacy were amongst the topics topping the list …
‘Pharmacist prescribers can help to alleviate that pressure.’
Specialist pharmacists in New Zealand can now prescribe over 1700 prescription medicines, but similar proposals in Australia have met ‘resistance’ Pharmacist prescribers in New Zealand can now prescribe nearly 200 …
Clinical tips: Pregnancy and breastfeeding
Carlene McMaugh takes a look at the issue of off-label S3s in pregnancy and breastfeeding Pregnancy and breastfeeding are times when people have a lot of questions about their health …
‘Employers have woken up.’
It’s becoming a seller’s market when it comes to pharmacy employment, with the skills shortage now hurting in metro areas… and higher pay on the way Employers are looking to …
Pharmacy vaccine fraud attempt
Geraldton Police say they have charged a woman over an attempted vaccine fraud at a pharmacy “Geraldton Police have charged a 34-year-old Kalbarri woman with one count of attempted fraud …
‘I just want methadone.’
A Sydney pharmacy is winding up its methadone program after a man allegedly robbed it of two litres of the drug at knifepoint It was a busy afternoon, around 3.20pm, …
‘Likely causal’ association between myocarditis and mRNA vaccines
TGA shares latest safety report on Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, including most common reactions in people aged under 18 years… The TGA has so far received around 1,800 reports of …
‘It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.’
Two community pharmacists left their full-time jobs to join the mass vaccination rollout for Sydneysiders during the COVID-19 outbreak A small group of pharmacists were part of the “mammoth” effort …