AHPRA
Notifications no need for panic
Pharmacists are being urged to keep calm and contact their professional indemnity insurer if they receive an AHPRA notification Data from the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) shows that …
Watch: Medicolegal incidents in pharmacy – managing associated psychosocial hazards
A community pharmacist and a PDL professional officer discuss how to minimise psychosocial hazards created by medicolegal incidents in pharmacy, in a webinar moderated by PSS President Curtis Ruhnau What …
Board issues identity theft warning
New graduates urged to “think twice” about posting images of their first registration certificate on social media Concerns about websites selling counterfeit certificates of registration are behind calls from the …
Board records Indigenous pharmacists
Quarterly registration report records First Nations pharmacist numbers for the first time More than 100 Indigenous Australians hold professional registration with the Pharmacy Board of Australia, new data from the …
Cannabis growth spiral sees stakeholders meet
Health stakeholders have met and agreed to look at several aspects of managing the growth of medicinal cannabis – including maintaining a balance between access and safety Ahpra and several …
Employer audit reveals unregistered pharmacist
A pharmacist let his registration lapse and practised for four months before his employer caught him Ahpra has issued a statement about a man who has been prosecuted for holding …
Poll: Readers slam rego fee increase
A significant number of pharmacists say the increase to their registration fees isn’t justified…here’s what Ahpra says in response Recently, a pharmacist who preferred to remain anonymous wrote to the …
Maintaining professional boundaries: A reminder for pharmacists
Meridian Lawyers has collaborated with PDL to prepare an article about professional boundaries and the types of conduct that are likely to be the subject of complaint to regulators. …
Pharmacy Board of Australia registration renewal
Every year, PDL receives calls from pharmacists who have overlooked their Pharmacy Board of Australia (PBA) registration renewal. This may happen due to renewal reminders being quarantined in junk …
Health practitioner ombudsman highlights increase in approaches
Health ombudsman reveals that only a fraction of complaints made to it concern pharmacists – but one in 20 of the queries it couldn’t address were medicine-related The office of …
‘Vexatious’ complaint against Higgins dropped
RACGP president handed AHPRA notification over private 60-day dispensing Facebook post Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) president, Dr Nicole Higgins claims a complaint lodged with regulators over …
Poll: Is the increase in registration fees justified?
One pharmacist has written to us concerned about the increase in pharmacist registration fees – we’d like to know what you think A couple of weeks ago, Ahpra announced that …