funding
Guild pleads for 7CPA funding boost
Pharmacy Guild of Australia leaders are in Canberra for the final parliamentary sitting week ahead of the federal Budget amid a Seventh Community Pharmacy Agreement funding crisis With a funding …
Time to deliver on 7CPA promises: wholesalers
Funding arrangements for pharmaceutical wholesalers in the Seventh Community Pharmacy Agreement (7CPA) are not being honoured, an industry leader says Wholesalers are being short-changed by failures to honour the “the …
The week in review
The eyes of the nation turned to the Gold Coast this week, as we heard from Guild representatives, politicians and other pharmacy leaders at APP2023 Thousands of pharmacists from around …
Stop pretending full scope ‘isn’t going to cost’
Pharmacists working to their full scope of practice will not be the panacea to Australia’s primary healthcare woes, if programs are not adequately funded. In a post on the Rural …
2000 jobs under threat; supermarkets shock
British banner group to withdraw from 237 supermarket-based locations Lack of government funding has been blamed as the primary reason British Lloydspharmacy has decided to withdraw from all 237 sites …
World news wrapup: 29 September 2022
Latest UK funding deal a bitter disappointment to stakeholders; pharmacy crime still escalating in Calgary; NZ campaign for free scripts England: Newly announced funding arrangements will be “devastating” for the …
‘A real success’: RAT program extended
Pharmacies thanked as concessional Rapid Antigen Test program and national COVID-19 response extended under government ‘winter preparedness’ measures The Commonwealth will extend the concessional Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) program until …
Please don’t forget rural pharmacy
Advocacy group urges pharmacy bodies to support the rural pharmacy workforce by pushing for government-funded salary incentives The Rural Pharmacy Network Australia (RPNA) is urging the Pharmacy Guild of Australia …
World news wrapup: 26 August 2021
Abused pharmacists lauded as “heroes”; one US chain accused of losing most controlled drug doses in Massachusetts; Ireland’s pharmacy accessibility recognised Washington DC: The American Pharmacists Association has condemned recent …
‘This is a stuff-up and it really needs to be fixed.’
Funding program for rural, regional and remote pharmacy misses the mark, say pharmacists who claim they are worse off under recent changes The new Regional Pharmacy Maintenance Allowance (RPMA) does …
World news wrapup: 26 November 2020
Pharmacist allegedly replaced medicines with baking soda; grad exams postponed again; fraud sentence for three Southern Israel: Israel’s Health Ministry is reportedly investigating a pharmacist who is facing allegations that …
A done deal
Our guide to everything you need to know about the Seventh Community Pharmacy Agreement The highly anticipated Seventh Community Pharmacy Agreement (7CPA) was signed in Canberra by Pharmacy Guild president …