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Pharmacist wins $36.8m in damages
Regularly having to forgo work breaks and overtime pay and being expected to fund her own vaccination training, this pharmacist filed a claim – and won California pharmacist Afrouz Nikmanesh …
Up to eight years for Canberra crime spree
A man has been jailed for up to eight and a half years after he ram-raided pharmacies, racking up 30 offences in five days Canberra media have reported on the …
‘Incredible oversupply’ of codeine
A former pharmacy owner is awaiting a Tribunal decision on penalties after it heard her patient was receiving the highest amount of codeine in Victoria The Herald Sun reports that …
Robber threatened things could ‘get messy’
A man who robbed a pharmacy with a tomahawk has appealed his sentence – with success The Supreme Court of Queensland has heard the case of Joshua Watson, who pleaded …
The week in review
The pharmacy sector was looking to the future this week, as lockdowns begin to ease and vaccination numbers continue to grow The Pharmacy Guild‘s Trent Twomey had some advice to …
World news wrapup: 14 October 2021
Convictions upheld for pharmacists who claimed they were like “mere shipping clerks;” US retailers gets out of pharmacy sector; mechanic who saved pharmacy delivery lauded Boston, Massachusetts: Two pharmacists involved …
Doc was in ‘very dark place’ after falsifying script
After surviving cancer, a health professional began to prescribe and use opioids illicitly A medical practitioner has been reprimanded and his registration suspended for three months after he presented falsified …
API to ‘vigorously defend’ action
Australian Pharmaceutical Industries has confirmed that a class action has been filed against it API has issued a statement confirming that a class action has been filed against it in …
‘Bags and bags’ of drugs in notification pics
A pharmacy owner’s immediate suspension was set aside after she appealed the 2020 decision The owner of a Queensland pharmacy faced the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal in an appeal …
World news wrapup: 7 October 2021
Irish pharmacist slams “show trial” over Facebook like; US licence exam bungle; jail over $17m in claims for unnecessary compounded meds scripts Dublin, Ireland: A pharmacist has slammed allegations against …
‘I did access these records, harmlessly I felt.’
A NSW health professional inappropriately accessed 35 people’s medical records, some in the context of the “enormous pressure and stress of a messy family law court” The NSW Civil and …
‘Extraordinary pressure’ led intern to fraud, forgery
Overwhelmed with administrative tasks, an intern found her workplace “suffocating and undoubtedly stressful” and was desperate to get a different job… so she faked her practice hours to get away …