Pharmacy Guild
The week in review
It’s been a week for official announcements in community pharmacy If you’ve been wondering what to do with your leftover low-dose codeine stock next year when these products are upscheduled, …
Corporatisation, ‘game changing’ interventions highlighted
Pharmacy is becoming corporatised across Australia and similar countries, warns Guild national president George Tambassis Mr Tambassis wrote in this week’s edition of Forefront that there are “a number of …
Guild snubs King Review with own plans for future
The Guild has launched a “thought-starter” paper to introduce a major strategic planning project which it says will help secure pharmacy’s future The paper, called Community Pharmacy 2025 – introduction, …
New biosimilars course
Guild Learning and Development is partnering with MSD Australia in an online course titled Biosimilars in focus This is the first of two courses to be launched on this topic …
Where are all the women owners?
Barriers to ownership include resistance, judgement from both sexes… but things are changing, say women in the field On entering pharmacy ownership, NSW Pharmacy Guild Branch Committee Member Caroline Diamantis …
Intern training enrolments open
Enrolments in the Pharmacy Guild of Australia 2018 National Intern Training Program have now officially opened Preceptors who currently employ a graduating pharmacy student are encouraged to recommend the program, …
Pharmacy urged to back codeine upschedule
The RACGP has used International Overdose Awareness Day to tell pharmacy to support the codeine upschedule August 31 is Overdose Awareness Day, held worldwide to raise awareness of overdose, reduce …
New quit smoking course
Guild Learning and Development is partnering with Pfizer in an online course titled “Engage your customers to successfully cease smoking” This course examines the key barriers to smoking cessation and …
ACT pharmacists ready to battle whooping cough
As the ACT fights an “unusually high” incidence of whooping cough, pharmacies have reminded consumers that they’re ready to help As reported over the weekend, the ACT had the highest incidence …
Doctors will prescribe less codeine: Gannon
Seeking an exemption from prescription for codeine-containing products is heading into “dangerous territory,” says AMA chief And it’s likely doctors will prescribe less codeine and at lower doses after the …
Do Aussies pay too much to treat hayfever?
The cost of allergy treatment is restricting access for some, stakeholders warn as we head into hayfever season Australian with allergies pay more than their counterparts overseas, Channel Nine News …
The week in review
It’s been a busy week in Australian community pharmacy, with the big issues looming large This week began with the RACGP attacking community pharmacy over OTC codeine, calling on the …