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The debate about scope of practice continued this week, plus decisions on Covid boosters and several medications Scope of practice is still top of mind, with Pharmacy Guild of Australia …

Do face masks really work to reduce Covid transmission? C Raina MacIntyre and Abrar Ahmad Chughtai, UNSW Sydney; David Fisman, University of Toronto, and Trish Greenhalgh, University of Oxford take …

Discrepancies in the remuneration models for COVID-19 vaccines administered by different health professionals needs to be addressed, a pharmacy leader believes.   With all Australians aged 18 years and older …

Australian adults will have the option to receive a fifth dose of a COVID-19 vaccine later this month, and it is unlikely to be the last they will be offered. …

Community pharmacists should be authorised and funded to provide immunisations for all vaccine-preventable diseases, the World Pharmacy Council (WPC) believes.   In its Vaccination services in community pharmacies report the …

Researchers take an in-depth look at how the pandemic altered the landscape of pharmacist vaccination for good This article is the first in a series to reflect on the impact …

Changes to the Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s constitution were made late last year and will extend the organisation’s election cycle to four years. The amendments lodged with the Fair Work …

Moderna’s Spikevax is set to be the first of Australia’s provisionally approved COVID-19 vaccines to undergo an evaluation to transition to full registration.  The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) revealed Moderna …

Pharmacists are being urged not to waste the opportunities created by the COVID-19 pandemic.   Addressing the International Pharmaceutical Federation’s (FIP’s) Enabling life-course immunisation through pharmacy-based vaccination: Regulations and prescribing …

Eight out of ten pharmacists experienced one negative effect during the pandemic… and three-quarters of those in community pharmacy experienced burnout In our latest poll, the AJP wanted to know …

We each have to assess and mitigate our own risk. But how? asks Hassan Vally, Deakin University The Australian government’s latest COVID management plan, released yesterday [12.12.22], maps how the …

As COVID cases rise again, new research shows a third of Australians are now less likely to test if they have symptoms A leading pharmacist says that as many eligible …