World Pharmacy Council
Compensate pharmacies for managing drug shortages
Regulators need to authorise pharmacists to respond to medicines shortages before they are declared “severe”, an international organisation says Governments are being urged to compensate pharmacists for the time they …
‘Thank you for all the crucial work that you do.’
Stakeholders are marking World Pharmacists’ Day by highlighting evolving roles and supporting current ones This year’s theme is “Pharmacists: Meeting global health needs”. Pharmaceutical Society of Australia national president Associate …
Pharmacists need scope to manage medicines shortages: Guild
Legislative changes are needed to enable pharmacists to manage ongoing medicines supply shortages effectively, a Guild spokesperson says Governments around the globe are being urged to introduce measures to make …
Bold reforms required to deliver savings
Governments can secure “substantial cost-savings” by extending health practitioners’ scope of practice, a report from the OECD says Implementing measured to enable non-physicians to work to their full scope of …
World Pharmacy Council makes vaccination pitch
Community pharmacists should be authorised and funded to provide immunisations for all vaccine-preventable diseases, the World Pharmacy Council (WPC) believes. In its Vaccination services in community pharmacies report the …