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QUM advocate honoured by AACP
Wednesday | Jun 23 2021MEDICINES safety advocate, Dr Manya Angley (pictured), has been awarded the Australian Association of Consultant Pharmacy (AACP) MIMS 2021 Consultant Pharmacist of the Year (PotY) title.
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McBride voices aged care concerns
Tuesday | Jun 22 2021PHARMACIST-TURNED-FEDERAL MP, Emma McBride, is calling on the Federal Government to implement significant reforms in the aged care sector to boost quality use of medicines.
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Reprimanded over S8 record failings
Tuesday | Jun 22 2021SYDNEY-BASED pharmacist, Hung Kim Tran, must undergo mentoring for a minimum period of 12 months after being reprimanded in relation to failing to ensure his pharmacy's drug register accurately recorded dates that Schedule 8 medicines were dispensed to a patient who subsequently overdosed using them.
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‘Side hustle’ slur enrages pharmacy
Tuesday | Jun 22 2021BRITISH pharmacists are voicing their frustration at a right-wing blogsite's portrayal of a pharmacist-turned MP's declaration she is working locum shifts at a pharmacy as a "side hustle".
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All pharmacies, all vaccines: Twomey
Monday | Jun 21 2021PHARMACIES across the country should be given access to Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines as well as doses of the AstraZeneca shot to support the national vaccination program, Pharmacy Guild of Australia National President, Trent Twomey, believes.
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RPMA cuts to reduce meds access
Monday | Jun 21 2021RURAL pharmacy owners are expressing concerns that they will have to reduce trading hours in response to changes to the Rural Pharmacy Maintenance Allowance (RPMA).
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Community first for TWC Poty winner
Monday | Jun 21 2021A DRIVING force in raising awareness for health conditions in her community, TerryWhite Chemmart (TWC) Goondiwindi's Emma Conway (pictured), has been named the 2021 TWC Pharmacist of the Year (PotY).
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SA plots pharmacy COVAX rollout
Friday | Jun 18 2021SOUTH Australia Premier, Steven Marshall, is set to give the green-light for a record number of rural and remote pharmacies to join the COVID-19 vaccine (COVAX) rollout.
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Tas falling behind: Guild
Friday | Jun 18 2021TASMANIA'S COVID-19 vaccination rollout risks falling behind the rest of Australia with no confirmed plans to activate community pharmacies to join the campaign, the Pharmacy Guild of Australia warns.
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CtG changes could limit meds access
Thursday | Jun 17 2021LESS than two weeks out from the implementation of changes to the Closing the Gap (CtG) Co-payment Relief program, pharmacists are warning it could create fresh problems to patients seeking to access prescription medicines.