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Unfair pay disparities remain
Morrison Government fails to improve remuneration for members of the profession and plan hospital pharmacist roles, say pharmacy stakeholders The Pharmacy Guild wasn’t happy with this year’s Federal Budget, with …
The week in review
This week the headlines were all about employment conditions, including wages, as well as more COVID news Melbourne pharmacist Pardeep Singh crunched some numbers this week, finding that the choice …
Dispensing machines in general practices?
The vending machine model and three-month dispensing have been proposed again – as have dispensing from general practice, online and in supermarkets – by GPs in a report critiquing the …
Views on digital innovation wanted
The Australian Digital Health Agency wants to hear from Australians about the future of healthcare The Agency has launched a nationwide online survey on digital health this week. Consumers, healthcare providers, industry …
‘A work in progress for the decade ahead’
FIP has launched goals to support the transformation of the pharmacy profession around the world The FIP Development Goals build on the 13 Pharmaceutical Workforce Development Goals for pharmacy education …
Rethink needed after COVID-19
Doctors are advocating for an Australian National Centre for Disease Control in comments welcomed by the PSA In opening remarks to the Senate Select Committee on COVID-19, AMA president Dr …
Retailers without strong connections suffer: TWC
More than 500 pharmacists and pharmacy professionals across the TerryWhite Chemmart network are in Melbourne to hear from pharmacy industry leaders The pharmacists are visiting as part of TerryWhite Chemmart’s …
Room to grow
Pharmacies around the world are implementing strategies which are benefiting health enormously, says an award-winning pharmacist Lucy Walker, owner of the Terry White Chemmart Goondiwindi in rural Queensland (which was …
Guild accused of ‘bullying’ governments for profit
The leaders of Australia’s peak general practice organisations have united to lobby governments not to accept Pharmacy Guild policy The doctors said in a statement that the Guild is attempting …
NT pharmacy faces uncertain future
The Northern Territory’s only university has scrapped its pharmacy program, leaving the sector in a “tricky position” according to one pharmacy leader Charles Darwin University, the only university in the …
The week in review
Scope of practice was the key issue in pharmacy this week, with a new policy paper from the Guild and anger from doctors The Pharmacy Guild launched a new policy …
A new alliance
The PSA and SHPA have signed a Memorandum of Understanding enabling closer cooperation representing and empowering the majority and spectrum of Australia’s pharmacists and technicians The MoU, announced at the …