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Let pharmacists vaccinate: Tassone
Monday | May 31 2021POLITICIANS at both State and Federal levels need to stop arguing and focus their efforts on removing barriers to accessing COVID-19 vaccines, Pharmacy Guild of Australia Victorian Branch President, Anthony Tassone, believes.
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PSA RAP gets endorsed
Monday | May 31 2021RECONCILIATION Australia has given its endorsement to the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia's (PSA's) Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), Reflect.
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NSW pharmacies brace for COVAX
Friday | May 28 2021COMMUNITY pharmacies across NSW will join the COVID-19 vaccination (COVAX) program "sooner rather than later", Pharmacy Guild of Australia NSW Branch President, David Heffernan, reports.
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COVAX AEFI reports declining: TGA
Friday | May 28 2021INCIDENTS of adverse events following immunisation (AEFI) with COVID-19 vaccines (COVAX) declined in the week ending 23 May, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) reveals.
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A decade of opportunity
Friday | May 28 2021AUSTRALIA'S primary healthcare system is facing a decade of transformation that will provide community pharmacists with opportunities to play a greater role in patient care, Blooms the Chemist Head of Retail, Emmanuel Vavoulas, believes.
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Let super-sub play role
Thursday | May 27 2021VICTORIAN politicians are being urged to let pharmacies "off the bench" to support efforts to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic as the State enters a seven-day lockdown.
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Guild needs to make biosimilar push
Thursday | May 27 2021PHARMACY leaders are being urged to "tread the halls" of Parliament House to educate politicians and bureaucrats about the benefits of biosimilars, former Commonwealth Department of Health Secretary, Jane Halton (pictured), believes.
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Goalposts keep moving on COVAX
Thursday | May 27 2021PHARMACISTS are ready and waiting to join the COVID-19 vaccination (COVAX) campaign, but "the goalposts keep moving", regional Victorian pharmacy owner, Taren Gill, told ABC Victoria's Conversation Hour.
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Guild losing patience with Premiers
Wednesday | May 26 2021STATE Premiers will be held accountable for the health and economic fallout of future COVID-19 outbreaks, if they do not engage community pharmacies in the vaccine rollout program.
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COVAX rollout can’t remain a strollout
Wednesday | May 26 2021MELBOURNE'S latest COVID-19 outbreak highlights the urgent need to bolster vaccination capacity and accelerated the immunisation campaign, Pharmacy Guild of Australia Victorian Branch President, Anthony Tassone, believes.