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Telepharmacy no-brainer
Tuesday | Dec 8 2020IMPLEMENTING legislation to allow telepharmacy to become a permanent feature of healthcare is a "no-brainer" South Australian MP, Connie Bonaros, believes.
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Expand Vic vaccination role: PSA
Monday | Dec 7 2020TRAINED pharmacist immunisers in Victoria should be empowered to administer the full range of vaccines they are training to provide, Pharmaceutical Society of Australia Victorian Branch President, John Jackson, believes.
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Pharmacist guilty of in-store rape
Monday | Dec 7 2020SYDNEY-BASED pharmacist, Hany Samir Ibrahim, is set to face a sentencing hearing in Mar 2021 after pleading guilty to a charge of sexual intercourse without consent with a patient in a Mascot pharmacy's consultation room.
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Mo-grow success for PSS
Monday | Dec 7 2020A CROSS-PUBLICATION moustache growing campaign by Pharmacy Daily Editor, Nick O'Donoghue, and Australian Journal of Pharmacy Editor, Chris Brooker, has helped raise $2,590 for the Pharmacists' Support Service (PSS) in Nov.
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Strategic new president for College
Friday | Dec 4 2020FULLIFE Pharmacies Group Strategic Advisor, Michelle Bou-Samra (pictured), has been named as the Australasian College of Pharmacy's (ACP) new President.
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Unsung hero no more
Friday | Dec 4 2020NORTH Queenland's Alive Pharmacy Warehouse Group's 11 stores are celebrating its Managing Director, Georgina Twomey, being named as a finalist in the Australia Post Online Retail Industry Association Awards' (ORIAS) Unsung Hero Award large retailer category.
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WA pollies urged to back pharmacy
Friday | Dec 4 2020CANDIDATES running in next year's Western Australian State elections are being urged to support a push for community pharmacy to play a greater role in the delivery of primary care.
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No need to rush COVAX approval
Thursday | Dec 3 2020AUSTRALIAN regulators should "hold the line [and] wait for robust data" before approving COVID-19 vaccines, former Pharmaceutical Society of Australia National President, Shane Jackson, believes.
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Be alert but not alarmed PDL warns
Thursday | Dec 3 2020PHARMACISTS are being urged to slow down and "scan everything" to reduce the risk of dispensing errors.
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South Australia joins e-script rollout
Thursday | Dec 3 2020PHARMACIES across South Australia are now able to dispense electronic prescriptions as the rollout of the new technology continues, with patients across Victoria, the ACT and metropolitan Sydney already having access to paperless scripts.
