Headlines
-
PSA backs RC recommendations
Friday | Oct 23 2020RECOMMENDATIONS made by the Aged Care Quality and Safety Royal Commission, that include embedding pharmacists in all facilities across the country, are being welcomed by the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA).
-
Authorities must stand by pharmacy
Friday | Oct 23 2020PHARMACY group, Pharmacy4Less is calling on State authorities to provide greater support and protection to frontline health workers after a violent incident at one of its late night stores on Mon night (PD 21 Oct).
-
Pharmacists deserve respect: Guild
Thursday | Oct 22 2020THROUGH bushfires, drought, floods and COVID-19 pharmacists have gone above and beyond for their communities, and do not deserve to be subjected to threatening behaviour, Pharmacy Guild of Australia Executive Director, Suzanne Greenwood, believes.
-
API records COVID-induced loss
Thursday | Oct 22 2020PHARMACY wholesaler, Australian Pharmaceutical Industries (API) has reported a $7.9 million post tax loss for the 2020 Financial Year, with its Priceline Pharmacy banner group seeing gross profit fall by 14.3% due to the impacts of COVID-19.
-
NZ moves to codeine scripts
Thursday | Oct 22 2020NEW Zealand's Medsafe regulator has confirmed that all codeine-containing medicines will be classified as prescription medicines effective from 05 Nov this year.
-
Aggressive behaviour unacceptable
Wednesday | Oct 21 2020PHARMACIST, Ahmed Ouf, is calling for the profession to be given greater protection after being the victim of a violent incident in a late night pharmacy in Western Sydney on Mon night.
-
Sydney to join e-script rollout: ADHA
Wednesday | Oct 21 2020PATIENTS across metropolitan Sydney will soon have the option to have their prescriptions issued in an electronic format, the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) announced this morning.
-
COVID challenges traditional training
Wednesday | Oct 21 2020NEW-LOOK pharmacy training tools including role-play videos used during COVID-19 lockdowns are boosting the skills of pharmacists in training, research from Monash University reveals.
-
Telepharmacy to be made permanent
Tuesday | Oct 20 2020LEGISLATION that will give the Pharmacy Regulation Authority of South Australia (PRASA) the power to authorise telepharmacy services on a permanent basis is before the State's Legislative Council.
-
No going back on online pharmacy
Tuesday | Oct 20 2020SURGING online sales seen during COVID-19-related restrictions are likely to "come back a bit" but "won't go back to pre-COVID" levels, Chemist Warehouse co-founder, Jack Gance, believes.
