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Guild creates pharmacy recruitment courses
The Pharmacy Guild has developed a suite of courses to support community pharmacy recruitment. The challenges currently facing pharmacy mean there is a need to find ways to streamline costs …
Harper Review ‘muddled, intellectually lazy,’ says Quilty
The Harper Review’s final report is “muddled and intellectually lazy,” Guild executive director David Quilty writes in this week’s edition of forefront. “The final report of the Harper Competition Policy …
ACT Govt, Guild in quit smoking pharmacy program
ACT Minister for Health Simon Corbell and ACT Pharmacy Guild CEO Margaret Beerworth are encouraging Canberrans who are looking to quit smoking to try a pharmacy-led smoking cessation program. The …
Pharmacy facing 10 years of dispensing famine: Quilty
Community pharmacy is facing 10 years of real reductions in dispensing remuneration – and they need certainty in the 6CPA, writes Pharmacy Guild executive director David Quilty in this week’s …
Alliance pays tribute to Kimberley Pharmacy Services
The National Rural Health Alliance has congratulated Kimberley Pharmacy Services in Broome, Western Australia, on being named the Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s 2015 Pharmacy of the Year. KPS has also …
Fairlight Pharmacy suffers in media attacks
The owner of the Fairlight Pharmacy on Sydney’s North Shore, which was pictured in an attack on pharmacy by News health reporter Sue Dunlevy in last Sunday’s News Limited tabloids, …
‘Bile and abuse’ against pharmacists: Tambassis responds
Around Australia, hard-working pharmacists woke up this morning (18 March) to be kicked in the guts by a totally unwarranted torrent of bile and abuse from Janet Albrechtsen, writes George …
New Guild training: overseas travellers
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia has released its latest online pharmacist CPD course titled Understanding the needs of customers travelling overseas. This course addresses the fundamental knowledge required to deliver …
Greens call to halt 6CPA negotations
Greens Senator Richard di Natale has called on the Federal Government to immediately halt negotiations on the Sixth Community Pharmacy Agreement until there has been a full public inquiry into …
Pharmacy Guilds sign new MOU
The Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand and the Pharmacy Guild of Australia have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). Representatives from the Guilds renewed their MOU, first signed in …
Aspirin pricing reports misleading: Guild
News reports on aspirin pricing are misleading, says the Guild: some news reports of the ANAO audit of the Administration of the Fifth Community Pharmacy Agreement have referred to the …
5CPA handling could’ve been better: audit
The national audit of the administration of the Fifth Community Pharmacy has found key areas for improvement: the clarity of the 5CPA and related public reporting; record-keeping; the application of …