Pharmacy Guild
Locking in the changes
A Shorten Labor Government would establish a permanent Australian Health Reform Commission, the Shadow Health Minister says In a speech to the National Press Club on Labor’s vision for health …
12 monitored medicines a minute
The Guild’s Anthony Tassone has called on stakeholders to stop using loaded terms like “doctor shopping” in an update on Victoria’s real time monitoring system “The term ‘doctor shopper’ is …
The week in review
The pharmacy stakeholder bodies have been busy this week, with pre-Budget submissions, warnings to members and the #10YearChallenge The Allied Health Reference Group of the Medicare Benefits Schedule Review Taskforce …
Transparency drop a ‘wakeup call’
Transparency reporting by the pharmaceutical industry is in decline, warn Australian researchers who are calling for mandatory disclosure And increased prescribing of unnecessary and costly medicines is one significant potential …
Longer length scripts a ‘false economy’
Increasing pack sizes and prescription length is “lunacy,” says the Guild’s executive director In this week’s edition of Forefront, David Quilty slams recent suggestions that trips to pharmacies be reduced …
All hands on deck in Townsville
Pharmacists and other health professionals are pitching in together to help their patients, as Townsville remains cut off from the rest of the country due to flooding Paul Willis, general …
Guild boosts parties’ coffers
The Guild has again shown itself to be a giant among political donors, significantly boosting its contribution to Labor in the last financial year The Australian Electoral Commission has released …
Business plan competition open
The thirteenth National Student Business Plan Competition is now underway The Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s 2019 competition was launched during the Annual NAPSA Congress in Adelaide. Team captain of the …
Govt moves to help cash flow
The Morrison Government has increased the Instant Asset Write-Off threshold in a move welcomed by the Pharmacy Guild The Federal Government announced that it has raised the threshold for the …
Pharmacists battle to help patients
One pharmacist has slept in his pharmacy for the last seven nights, and another drove through an emergency alert area to open his store, as fires rage across Tasmania At …
The costs of longer-length scripts
Anthony Tassone refutes recent claims around longer-length prescriptions, and looks at their drawbacks A recent article in the Medical Journal of Australia, written by Dr Evan Ackermann, cannot go unchallenged …
What’s in store for 2019?
More collaboration, more opportunities and a transformation into health hubs are on the cards for pharmacy as the decade draws to a close In this week’s edition of Guild newsletter …