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COVAX can wait for TGA to do its job
Wednesday | Jan 6 2021AUSTRALIA does not need the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) to rush through its approval process for COVID-19 vaccines, the Advisory Committee for Vaccines Chair, Allen Cheng, believes.
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Vic businesses need COVID clarity
Tuesday | Jan 5 2021CONCERNS are being raised over reports that business owners in Victoria are learning that their premises have been listed as COVID-19 exposure sites through the media, rather than from the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
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RPMA eligibility review
Tuesday | Jan 5 2021PHARMACIES located in a Modified Monash Model category 3 to 7 location but do not meet eligibility requirements for the Rural Pharmacy Maintenance Allowance (RPMA) may still be able to access partial payments.
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Win some, lose some, RPMA changes
Monday | Jan 4 2021CHANGES to the Rural Pharmacy Maintenance Allowance (RPMA) are set to deliver increased funding for 960 rural and remote pharmacies, however, a number of stores are set to lose out under the new Modified Monash Model for rural classification.
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NAPSA wants student COVAX role
Monday | Jan 4 2021VICTORIA, South Australia and the Northern Territory are being urged to amend legislation to enable trained pharmacy students and interns to administer vaccines to support the rollout of any COVID-19 vaccines (COVAX).
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Absentee owners hurt rural pharmacy
Friday | Dec 18 2020OPPORTUNITIES to expand pharmacy services in rural and remote areas are being lost as a result of disengaged absentee owners, Bourke-based pharmacist, Peter Crothers, believes.
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Guild gets rural voice
Friday | Dec 18 2020FEDERAL Regional Health Minister, Mark Coulton, has announced that the Pharmacy Guild of Australia is to have a permanent seat on the Rural Health Stakeholder Roundtable from 2021.
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Guild honours NSW bushfire heroes
Thursday | Dec 17 2020THE Pharmacy Guild of Australia NSW Branch is honouring members who went above and beyond to support their communities during a crisis-ridden 2020.
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NPSA prepped for seasonal disasters
Thursday | Dec 17 2020PHARMACY wholesalers have strengthened their distribution logistics to provide "additional certainty for the medicine supply chain" ahead of a summer of potential natural disasters, the National Pharmaceutical Services Association (NPSA) reports.
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MBS access a game changer for QUM
Wednesday | Dec 16 2020MEDICARE Benefits Schedule (MBS) reimbursements to support non-medical practitioner involvement in case conferencing would be a "game changer in improving safe and quality use of medicines (QUM)" the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) believes.