Headlines
-
Practice ownership a burden for GPs
Monday | May 10 2021DECLINING numbers of GPs are involved in practice ownership, with factors including management responsibilities and a lack of work-life balance making it unattractive, a study reveals.
-
Pharmacy model best for naloxone
Friday | May 7 2021LEGISLATIVE reforms allowing the supply of naloxone to occur directly to patients at needle and syringe programs services in Victoria are being welcomed, but the Pharmacy Guild of Australia believes safeguards are needed to ensure safe and effective use.
-
Biosimilar education campaign boost
Friday | May 7 2021FEDERAL Government funding to extend the Generic and Biosmilar Medicines Association's (GBMA's) biosimilar education program until at least Jun 2022, will be a boost for pharmacists, patients and prescribers, the organisation believes.
-
PSA issues pre Budget aged care plea
Friday | May 7 2021FEDERAL Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, is being urged to increase funding to boost medicines safety in residential aged care facilities, in next week's 2021-22 Federal Budget.
-
Veteran pharmacist barred for year
Thursday | May 6 2021A NSW-BASED pharmacist with more than 40 years' experience will be unable to hold registration for at least 12 months after being found guilty of professional misconduct in relation to his failure to properly maintain the dangerous drugs register at the pharmacy he was working in.
-
Bump in GP COVAX doses welcomed
Thursday | May 6 2021PROMISES to increase the number of doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine (COVAX) that GP clinics will receive each week are being welcomed by medical and pharmacy organisations alike.
-
Time to grasp COVID opportunities
Thursday | May 6 2021PHARMACISTS are being urged to ensure they take advantage of the elevated profile the profession has gained during the COVID-19 pandemic to reimagine roles and pharmacy practice.
-
Roll-on pharmacy COVAX roll out
Wednesday | May 5 2021ALMOST all of the 4,090 community pharmacies that submitted expression of interest applications to join the COVID-19 vaccination (COVAX) rollout campaign are suitable to provide vaccines, the Pharmacy Programs Administrator (PPA) says.
-
Meds safety life or death
Wednesday | May 5 2021AUSTRALIA is playing "a game of Russian roulette" with aged care residents paying the price, by failing to address barriers to the provision of pharmacist-led services to improve medicines safety, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) believes.
-
Wage growth falling off the agenda
Tuesday | May 4 2021COMMUNITY pharmacy employees need to ensure pay rates remain a hot topic within the profession, former Pharmaceutical Society of Australia NSW Branch President, Emeritus Professor Shalom "Charlie" Benrimoj, believes.