Pharmacy Guild of Australia
NSW ‘keen’ to expand pharmacists’ scope
NSW is set to implement a state-wide scope of practice trial mirroring the North Queensland Pharmacy Scope of Practice Pilot Expanding community pharmacists’ scope of practice will deliver benefits to …
Let doctors diagnose and pharmacists prescribe
Pharmacist prescribing could cut medication use and improve patient outcomes, expert claims Patients could be better off if doctors were to deliver diagnoses and leave decisions around medications to pharmacists, …
RACGP to have say in 8CPA
Government invites GP body to have say on funding for community pharmacy The Department of Health and Aged Care is set to hold bilateral talks with the Royal Australian College …
State government to top up ORT payments
Community pharmacies in one jurisdiction are set to receive additional payments to deliver Commonwealth Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) funded opioid replacement therapy The Tasmanian government will provide top up payments …
Pharmacists set to march on Sydney
Community pharmacy owners are planning a “walk for awareness” later this month to highlight the challenges 60-day dispensing will create Pharmacists are set to take their concerns about the proposed …
Government rebuffs Guild 60-day dispensing claims
Ergas modelling 50% higher than Government estimates, according to updated 60-day dispensing “pharmacy kit” A Health Department 60-day dispensing instructional “pharmacy kit” has been updated to take aim at the …
Pharmacists will survive: Labor MP
Concerns about the impacts 60-day dispensing will have on community pharmacies are being dismissed by a government MP Labor MP, Peta Murphy, has dismissed suggestions that the closure of the …
AMA calls on Coalition to back 60-day dispensing
Pharmacy owners’ double dispensing concerns dubbed an “irresponsible scare campaign” by doctors’ group Opposition leader, Peter Dutton, is being urged to clarify the Coalition’s position on 60-day dispensing, with the …
Double dispensing safety net needed: Tyrrell
Government urged to compromise on 60-day dispensing roll out to protect the viability of community pharmacies Compromise will be critical to ensuring rural communities retain access to pharmacist-delivered health services …
IR reforms will cost jobs employers warn
Employers’ groups are calling on the federal government to rethink proposed changes to industrial relations (IR) laws Planned changes to Australian workplace relations legislation will put the economy at risk, …
Guild draws 60-day dispensing battlelines
Residents living in marginal federal seats are set to be bombarded with advertising highlighting the risks double dispensing poses to the viability of community pharmacies The Pharmacy Guild of Australia …
Higgins misinformed on RPMA
Suggestions that rural pharmacies are set to get a $90,000 funding boost to counteract the impacts of 60-day dispensing are wide of the mark Royal Australian College of General Practitioners …