Pharmacy Board
Suspended pharmacist just kept working
A pharmacist who kept opening and operating a pharmacy alone – after he was suspended – has been fined $24,500 A NSW Court has convicted the suspended pharmacist, David Le, …
Prescribe three ways: Grattan
The Grattan Institute has released its submission to the Pharmacy Board of Australia’s discussion paper on pharmacist prescribing, recommending they be able to prescribe under all three suggested models The …
To prescribe, or not to prescribe….
Questions are increasingly being asked about the likelihood of pharmacists having limited powers to prescribe, and Guild leaders endorse the possibility The issue of pharmacist’s being able to prescribe medicines …
Suspended after filling fraudulent scripts
A pharmacist has had his registration suspended for six months after he dispensed up to 15 tablets of alprazolam and 17 tablets of diazepam per day to a patient The …
Pharmacy: the numbers
The gap between male and female pharmacist numbers continues to grow, as does the overall number of pharmacists registered in Australia The Pharmacy Board has released its latest figures regarding …
The week in review
A lot can happen in just one week in Australia’s pharmacy sector… This week, AHPRA released its annual report and we got a look at the notification figures: only 6% …
New board chair appointed
The Pharmacy Board of Australia has a new chair as Bill Kelly steps down Queensland pharmacist Brett Simmonds is the new chair of the Pharmacy Board of Australia, succeeding the …
Why therapeutic need matters
PDL has issued a reminder of pharmacists’ obligations when supplying pseudoephedrine, citing recent cases where disciplinary action was taken In one case the pharmacist understood his obligations, but was found …
The week in review
It’s been an action-packed week in community pharmacy… A pub with no beer is bad enough, but this week we also took a look at the town with no medicines… …
Rego reminder
The Pharmacy Board has reminded pharmacists to renew their registration by the end of the month Pharmacists have until 30 November 2018 to renew their registration on time. “More than …
Pharmacist prescribing forum: what’s next?
Stakeholders have shown a strong desire to progress work to enable pharmacists to prescribe S4 and S8 medicines The Pharmacy Board of Australia has published a report about the forum …
Faxed S8 requests and expired drugs
The Pharmacy Board has published two case summaries to highlight pharmacists’ obligations… including one where S8s were regularly dispensed with no valid script In its latest newsletter, the Board has …