covid treatment
Australia ‘not yet COVID-stable’: review
Availability of vaccines and treatments will continue to play a key role in 2023 and 2024 due to uncertainty over future COVID variants, independent report finds A need to mitigate …
Profession split on COVID-19 antiviral provision
More than 1,100 readers voted on our poll, with most saying pharmacists should be able to supply COVID-19 antivirals—but with additional training or strict protocols Among the 1,107 readers who …
RACGP labels Pharmacy Guild’s claims ‘unfounded and misleading’
Doctors’ group rejects allegations that GP patient wait times are endangering those with COVID-19 The RACGP has rejected the Pharmacy Guild’s assertion that GP wait times are leading to delays …
GP wait times ‘unacceptable’: Twomey
The current GP shortage means patient wait times are endangering those with COVID-19, says Guild president Pharmacy Guild national president Professor Trent Twomey is urgently calling on all governments at …
OTC pharmacy dispensing ‘not the answer’, say GP groups
Pharmacists and patients are reporting delays in treatment initiation for COVID oral antivirals, but doctor groups argue against downscheduling the drugs Despite calls from the Pharmacy Guild and the PSA …
Pharmacist prescribing of antivirals a ‘no brainer’
Pharmacy groups call for pharmacist initiation of COVID-19 oral antiviral medicines as demand skyrockets, but GP group says doctors should remain mainstay The Pharmacy Guild and the PSA are calling …
Supporting the consumer
New fact sheets to support prescription of COVID-19 antivirals to an important patient group have been released NPS MedicineWise has released new consumer information on three COVID-19 antiviral medicines. Its …
New COVID medicine listing
Oral antiviral Paxlovid to be added to the PBS from 1 May as a treatment for COVID-19 Community pharmacists can expect to see PBS-subsidised scripts of the oral anti-viral medicine …