King Review
One day left: the King Review
Panel urges pharmacists, consumers and industry stakeholders to contribute their voice Submissions close 11:59pm AEST, on Friday 23 September 2016. Chair Professor Stephen King says the review panel has turned …
The week in review
It’s been another busy week for the pharmacy sector – and for once, the King Review was not the only review that got people talking. The long-awaited response to the …
‘There will be a mass exodus of bright young pharmacists’
Across the country pharmacists are doing it tough, with low (and dropping) wages a key theme emerging in submissions to the King Review At PSA16, Lance Emerson announced that, “Pharmacist …
Owners speak up on location rules
Should they be left alone, tweaked or scrapped altogether? King Review submissions reveal a variety of opinions So far the Review of Pharmacy Remuneration and Regulation has received and published …
The King Review: Discussing the future
The long-awaited pharmacy remuneration and regulation discussion paper has raised a lot of questions about how pharmacy operates, but what will be its answers? The Pharmacy Remuneration and Regulation (King) …
Pharmacies surviving ‘on the backs of people who don’t know any better’
Criticism of the availability of non-evidence-based complementary medicines in pharmacy is emerging as one of several themes in the written submissions to the King Review. To date the Review has …
The week in review
The King Review has again been the hot topic of the week in pharmacy, with the final consultative forum being held as a live webcast from Canberra on Wednesday. The …
Poll: how should CPAs be negotiated?
The King Review Discussion Paper opened a Pandora’s Box of questions about how pharmacy could and should be structured – including looking at the way the Community Pharmacy Agreements are …
15 comments from King Review national webcast
A live chat with the panel posed some tough questions and featured surprise guests The Department of Health hosted a live national webcast to allow participants to make comments and ask …
King Review national webcast: remuneration, location rules & HMRs
Participants posed some tough questions about pharmacy pay and restrictions, but what did the panel have to say? Chair of the Review of Pharmacy Remuneration and Regulation, Professor Stephen King, …
Review forums ‘very busy and enjoyable,’ says King
The past five weeks of consultation have been “very busy and enjoyable,” Professor Stephen King has said in a message to stakeholders in the Review of Pharmacy Remuneration and Regulation. …
What you said: Ramsay, overdose and greedy capitalism
It’s been a busy week for reader comments, with hot topics including our report on prescription overdose deaths, Ramsay Health Care looking to operate community pharmacies, and whether or not …