AHPRA
Rego reminder
The Pharmacy Board has reminded members of the profession to renew their registration before the end of November Registration renewal for pharmacists is now open, says the Pharmacy Board, advising …
AHPRA an option for concerns about 60-day scripts
Pharmacists urged to discuss queries about the safety and suitability of 60-day prescriptions with the prescriber, before contacting AHPRA Pharmacists with concerns about a prescriber’s clinical practice regarding 60-day prescriptions …
Registration fees on the rise
AHPRA announces 3% increase to pharmacists’ professional registration fees While some of Australia’s health practitioner boards have elected to freeze their registration fees for the next year, pharmacists face a …
Registration opens for new graduates
Final-year pharmacy students can now apply for registration with the Pharmacy Board of Australia Pharmacy students who are due to complete their course in the next three months and have …
‘Always more that can be done’ to manage skills shortage
The ranks of pharmacists have swelled by nearly 5,000 over the last five years – but the shortage persists, as a review looks at whether overseas practitioners could help The …
Criminal standard under review
Regulator calls for public consultation on criminal history standard for registered health practitioners Australia’s health practitioner regulator is inviting the public to contribute towards its review of the national standard …
Pharmacist faked registration letter
A woman told her employers she had obtained general registration, but had not yet applied – and then provided a fake letter from Ahpra The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency …
Overstepping the boundaries
Notifications of health practitioner boundary violations have jumped by almost 50% in two years, Ahpra says There has been a “sustained jump” in the reporting of boundary violations by healthcare …
Why pharmacists trust Ahpra – or not
Covid-19, vaccination and vaccine mandates all feature among significant reasons why some pharmacists do not trust their Board or Ahpra The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) and the Pharmacy …
Board reveals reputational insights
Trust in the Pharmacy Board has dropped to its lowest level recorded for the profession The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) and the Pharmacy Board of Australia have released results …
Telehealth ‘online tick-box prescribing…not good medical practice’; Medical Board
Consultation hijacked by hundreds of submissions from customers of two telehealth companies against changes Prescribing without a real-time patient-doctor consultation has been declared “not good medical practice”, according to just-published …
Pharmacist’s case marks Ahpra’s 100th criminal prosecution
A man let his provisional registration lapse – and then told his employer he was registered and worked full time as a pharmacist The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency has …