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A writer for a popular website has taken aim at a pharmacy assistant over her customer service Mother-of-two and Mamamia writer Shona Hendley wrote that while buying a pregnancy test …

Representatives of the AMA have again attacked pharmacy over sick notes, after a Herald Sun reporter obtained one in less than two minutes Doctors and the mainstream media have waded …

Doctors have slammed the Chronic Pain MedsChecks trial, following a doctors’ magazine report on anaesthetists’ concerns As reported in AJP last month, Dr Meredith Craigie, Dean of the Faculty of …

AHPRA plans to run a pilot audit to check health practitioner compliance with advertising requirements in early 2019 Random audits of advertising compliance will advance a risk-based approach to enforcing …

A Kiwi journalist has reviewed Chemist Warehouse, which is still a new entrant to the New Zealand market – and described it as “pure hell” But Alex Casey also writes …

Karalyn Huxhagen rounds up some of the best educational (and entertaining) podcasts for pharmacists As the furious race to the 30.9.18 happened and we all scrambled to ensure our CPD …

The PSA and the Pharmacy Guild have released the updated Absence from Work Certificates Guidelines for Pharmacists Originally developed by PSA and the Guild in 2008 and revised in 2011, …

Pharmacists have created a tool to help diagnose problematic aspects of organisational culture that contribute to psychotropic prescribing in aged care While the ABC’s Four Corners reveals the second part …

A sale at the George Street, Sydney branch of Chemist Warehouse saw a queue of shoppers winding around the block The popularity of the sale last week meant that staff …

Pharmacy has been in the media this week, again the subject of damning reports There’s been some controversy this week around pharmacists, as one mum told parenting site Kidspot that …

SHPA has hit back at claims in a pharmaceutical publication about vial sharing in chemotherapy Earlier this week, pharmaceutical and life sciences publication PharmaDispatch published an article in which companies …

The tension between GPs and pharmacists has again been in the news, with pharmacist prescribing singled out The RACGP’s Dr Evan Ackermann caused a stir with this piece in Medical …