Headlines
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SHPA announces virtual MM2020
Thursday | Jul 9 2020THE Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA)National Conference, Medicines Management 2020 (MM2020) will go ahead as an online event on 21 and 22 Nov.
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PSA Qld seeks post-COVID measures
Wednesday | Jul 8 2020QUEENSLAND'S State Government is being urged to implement legislation to protect pharmacists and other health professionals from violence and abuse on a permanent basis.
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Pharmacist/GP lands three-year ban
Wednesday | Jul 8 2020A PHARMACIST-TURNED GP will be barred from seeking registration as a pharmacist for at least three years after being found guilty of professional misconduct.
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PSA rejects ‘one-sided commentary’
Tuesday | Jul 7 2020CRITICISM of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia's (PSA) push for emergency dispensing to be implemented permanently, is damaging to inter-professional relationships, PSA National President, Dr Chris Freeman (pictured), believes.
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Delivering lockdown aid
Tuesday | Jul 7 2020PHARMACY owners in Melbourne's COVID-19 lockdown zones are working with the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services to ensure patients retain access to medicines throughout the ongoing crisis.
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Guild seeks Govt cleaning support
Monday | Jul 6 2020STATE funding is needed to support pharmacies to pay for professional cleaning when a staff member tests positive for COVID-19 Pharmacy Guild of Australia Victorian Branch President, Anthony Tassone, believes.
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GP slams PSA’s 7CPA performance
Monday | Jul 6 2020FORMER Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) Expert Committee - Quality Care, Dr Evan Ackermann, is taking aim at the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) for its role in negotiations over the Seventh Community Pharmacy Agreement (7CPA).
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PSA, SHPA talk pain
Monday | Jul 6 2020THE Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) and Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA) have launched a new four-part online opioid education program.
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SA revokes locum’s COVID exemption
Friday | Jul 3 2020A VICTORIAN locum pharmacist is being forced to quarantine in South Australia after the state Health Department rescinded his essential traveller exemption last night.
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Telehealth RACGP style
Friday | Jul 3 2020PATIENT access to telehealth services should be restricted to "their regular GP", as part of a major overhaul of the service introduced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.