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Covid vax details emerge
GPs are at the centre of Australia’s fast-tracked COVID vaccination strategy, but there seems no role for pharmacy, despite overseas colleagues involvement Plans for Australia’s COVID-19 are being revealed following …
Pharmacy’s must-read stories
For our last issue of the year, we reveal what has caught our readers attention in 2020 Interestingly, almost all of the top 20 are stories from the second half …
Getting rid of the barriers
What are the barriers currently preventing community pharmacists from playing a more active role in antimicrobial stewardship? New research may provide the answers Australian community pharmacists are aware of antimicrobial …
Suspended GP refused stay by tribunal
The NSW medical practitioner has appealed his suspension following a complaint of excessive prescribing of opiates and benzodiazepines The Medical Council of NSW suspended a GP’s registration from 13 May …
Broadening the scope of practice
A small but growing number of pharmacists are carving out a new role for the profession in their work as pharmacists embedded within GP clinics There’s no such thing as …
Breaking the barriers
In our latest podcast, pharmacists explain how and when you need to be assertive, the importance of respectful listening and picking the right language and tone to use In this …
Impairment leads to issues with prescribing, vaccination advice
A health practitioner has been given less than a month to show why she shouldn’t be struck off the register, after a tribunal found she had engaged in unethical conduct …
Keeping practitioners ‘safe from physical harm’
Recommendations on safeguarding the confidentiality of notifiers are imminent from the review conducted in the wake of the attempted murder of a pharmacist A final report on safeguarding the confidentiality …
Suspended after putting patient at risk
A GP has been suspended after improper administration of morphine, Valium and lidocaine during a cosmetic procedure, which landed his patient in the emergency ward A general practitioner has been …
Doctor struck off over ‘improper & unethical’ conduct
A NSW GP who sent hundreds of text messages – some explicit – to a vulnerable patient, and took another out on a date, has had his registration cancelled A …
AHPRA: We want it to be safe for people to report their concerns
The regulatory agency is midway through conducting a review on its policies and procedures in relation to safeguarding the confidentiality of notifiers In November 2018, the AJP reported the story of an Adelaide …
Opening Pandora’s Box
Dr Cindy Pan – GP, TV personality and author – talks to Miranda Deakin about “life’s little nasties” in a discussion of the female body, sexuality and relationships