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Looking at the rural pharmacy workforce
Limitations in the size of the rural and remote pharmacy workforce disadvantages populations in these areas. Research has provided a snapshot of the situation in parts of NSW This article …
Rural allowances: shooting wide of the target
A new funding program for rural, regional and remote pharmacy misses the mark, with pharmacists claiming they are worse off Just a few days before Christmas 2020, rural, regional and …
Is pharmacy ‘metrocentrically maldistributed’?
Pharmacy and other health professions have a ‘metrocentric maldistribution’, Parliament is told as MPs debate health inequities There were mixed messages from parliamentarian health professionals this week as the House …
Staying in the bush
Targeting rural and regional students for study at a rural pharmacy school will help to reduce workforce shortages, researchers say New Australian research has supported the theory that students who …
City folk and country folk
Do rural and urban community pharmacies actually differ in the services and practice models they offer? It’s often stated that practising as a community pharmacist in rural and regional Australia …
Don’t forget the bush
Rural pharmacy, and rural health in general, are being ignored in the current federal election campaign, says Fredrik Hellqvist Community pharmacies are critical frontline healthcare professionals which daily help to …
Thinking outside the city
In the second of our series of profiles of pharmacists standing for Parliament, we speak to Tasmanian pharmacist, and National Party candidate, Carl Cooper Candidate profile: Carl Cooper Party: Nationals …
Saving pharmacy in the bush
The challenges and difficulties of running a rural, regional or remote pharmacy are well documented, says Anthony Tassone, but have any government remedies worked? Successive governments have tried to establish …