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TWC takes Academy Live online
Thursday | Oct 15 2020PHARMACY assistants from across the TerryWhite Chemmart (TWC) network are gathering online for the group's first virtual Academy Live pharmacy assistant training event.
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Accused pharmacist makes plea offer
Thursday | Oct 15 2020A NSW-BASED pharmacist who is facing allegations of child sex offences has secured a four-week adjournment to continue negotiations with Crown prosecutors, The Daily Telegraph reports.
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Vic pharmacists fearful for future
Wednesday | Oct 14 2020PHARMACY owners in Victoria are voicing concerns over their stores' future viability after being excluded from the latest round of State Government Business Support Fund grants (PD 23 Sep).
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NSW moves for COVID-safe ID option
Wednesday | Oct 14 2020PHARMACISTS in NSW will be able to use patients' digital driver's licences as a COVID-safe contactless ID option when dealing with requests for medications such as pseudoephedrine, under legislation before the State's Legislative Assembly.
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Fred IT Group scoops Vic iAward
Wednesday | Oct 14 2020PHARMACY software provider, Fred IT Group's role in the introduction of electronic prescriptions has seen the business named as the winner of the 2020 Victorian iAward for Business and Industry Solution of the Year.
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Pharmacists working to pay childcare
Tuesday | Oct 13 2020HIGH childcare costs are blocking new parents from returning to the pharmacy workforce, Professional Pharmacists Australia (PPA) President, Dr Geoff March, believes.
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PSA issues Qld election 2020 wishlist
Tuesday | Oct 13 2020GREATER injection rights, a Chief Pharmacist and funding for transition-of-care pharmacists are on the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) Queensland Branch's State election wish-list.
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PATY finalists named
Tuesday | Oct 13 2020THE eight finalists for the 2020 Pharmacy Guild of Australia/Maxigesic Pharmacy Assistant of the Year Award (PATY) have been named with the winners of the State and Territory awards set to go head-to-head on 30 Oct in a virtual event.
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Keep emergency measures: Qld Inquiry
Monday | Oct 12 2020TEMPORARY emergency dispensing and digital image prescribing measures introduced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic should be made permanent, a Queenland State Parliamentary Committee believes.
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Provisional determination for COVAX
Monday | Oct 12 2020ASTRAZENCA'S COVID-19 vaccine candidate (ChAdOx1-S) has moved a step closer to gaining provisional registration, after the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) granted a provisional determination in relation to it on Fri.