Pharmacy
Getting to the top
New program launched by PDL and PSA to boost pharmacy leadership skills A new program to empower pharmacists develop their leadership skills has been developed by Pharmaceutical Defence Ltd (PDL) …
Put your money where your health is
Are consumers willing to pay for pharmacy services? Not in many cases it would seem Little guidance is currently available on whether healthcare consumers will be truly willing to pay …
The key to a successful first pharmacy purchase
What’s the secret to a winning first pharmacy purchase? Natalie Sirianni looks into the key factors The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) recently released the November Housing Finance Data which …
Direct to consumers
TGA’s surprise move to allow easier advertising of S3 medicines catches the industry and health professionals by surprise A new Scheduling Handbook, announced by the TGA late on Thursday (18th) …
Vale Geoff Vaughan
Former Victorian pharmacy dean and Australian Rugby international dies aged 84 Dr Geoffrey Vaughan AO, who was Dean of the Victorian College of Pharmacy (“VCP”) from 1979 to 1986, passed …
Winning ‘except-when’ status for codeine
Have you ever had to sell something that you didn’t quite believe? Tough isn’t it, says pharmacist Peter Feros But the scenario above is what we pharmacists are being asked …
Taken on notice
There are questions about some of the evidence presented to the Senate committee hearing into the effects of red tape on pharmacy rules, says Anthony Tassone Evidence presented by Michael Rhodes …
The supergroup factor
AJP editor Chris Brooker reflects on what the rise of the super banner group may mean to community pharmacy Crosby, Stills and Nash (and Young, though he was better than …
The division of labour
Opinions and concerns of pharmacy owners and employees now more divergent than ever before There is now a wider gulf in the views of pharmacy owners and employee pharmacists than …
Tell him he’s dreamin’
This famous quote from ‘The Castle’ comes up surprisingly often in pharmacy business brokering, says Natalie Sirianni To be honest, this is not usually quoted with exactly the same grammar …
Data upgrade
The state of the pharmacy workforce in 10 key numbers As of 30 September 2017 there are: 30,458 registered pharmacists 61.9% of registered pharmacists are female (18,850) There are 1110 …
Codeine: a done deal
Upscheduling to go ahead on 1 February, after TGA didn’t receive any formal submission to delay, senior bureaucrat confirms OTC codeine in Australia is set to become a memory with …