Headlines
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$160,000 back pay claim
Friday | Jul 13 2018PROFESSIONAL Pharmacists Australia (PPA) has lodged a whopping $160,000 underpayment claim on behalf of a Pharmacist-In-Charge member of the union, which described the case as "the worst example of wage theft we have seen".
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Doom merchants derided
Thursday | Jul 12 2018PHARMACY Guild executive director David Quilty has urged community pharmacies to "genuinely and optimistically embrace change," rather than bewailing a pharmacy future dominated by big business.
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My Health kits dispatched
Wednesday | Jul 11 2018THE Australian Digital Health Agency has begun distributing almost 20,000 education kits nationally as part of its efforts to inform health practitioners and agency partners on the expansion of the My Health Record initiative.
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UK, EU issue valsartan recall
Wednesday | Jul 11 2018THE European Medicines Agency is reviewing some medicines containing the active ingredient valsartan, after an impurity was detected by Chinese manufacturer Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceuticals.
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SHPA $30k research grant
Tuesday | Jul 10 2018THE Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA) this morning unveiled a new $30,000 research grant which it says will provide "an unprecedented opportunity for Australian clinical pharmacists to improve patient safety in the use of high-risk medicines".
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Pharmacists’ judgement
Monday | Jul 9 2018A RECENT inquest into the death of an elderly patient in Victoria has put a spotlight on a pharmacist's duty to exercise independent judgement when dispensing medication, according to a practice alert from Pharmaceutical Defence Limited (PDL).
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Pharmacists can step up
Friday | Jul 6 2018COMMUNITY pharmacies stand ready to ease the burden on general practitioners to prevent them having to turn away mental health patients and sick children, the Pharmacy Guild of Australia said in a prompted statement.
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Pharmacy wise-owl laws
Friday | Jul 6 2018THE Pharmacy Guild of Australia has bitten back at the Australian Financial Review's opinion article writer Terry Barnes, who has written a scathing article about "one of the most anti-competitive, over-subsidised and hyper-regulated sectors of the Australian economy, retail pharmacy".
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Hospital meds transitions
Thursday | Jul 5 2018MINISTER for Health Greg Hunt has announced 15 new projects utilising data from consenting patients' My Health Record (MHR) to improve the delivery of their healthcare, some with a focus on transitioning from hospital to community pharmacy.
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Cannabis for cancer pain
Thursday | Jul 5 2018ASX-LISTED medical life sciences company Medlab Clinical reports that its clinical trial of its cannabis-based medicine, NanaBis, is on schedule with recruitment.
