Headlines
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Tackling mental health
Friday | Dec 13 2019WITH close to half of Australians expected to experience a mental illness at some stage of their life, research conducted by Griffith University found consumers believe community pharmacists are well placed to provide mental health promotion.
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NT pharmacies face workforce crisis
Thursday | Dec 12 2019PHARMACY owners in the Northern Territory are warning the Territory faces a workforce crisis following Charles Darwin University's (CDU) decision to cut its Bachelor of Pharmacy program (PD 20 Aug).
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Pharmacists are valued
Thursday | Dec 12 2019PATIENTS are increasingly seeing the crucial role pharmacists play in the health system, Pharmacy Guild of Australia Executive Director, Suzanne Greenwood (pictured), believes.
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Pharmacy the answer to GP shortage
Wednesday | Dec 11 2019AUSTRALIAN pharmacists need to be empowered to work to their full scope of practice to avert a healthcare crisis in the years ahead the Pharmacy Guild of Australia believes.
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Chemists’ Own winners
Wednesday | Dec 11 2019FIVE pharmacies across Australia have been named the winners of the Chemists' Own 2019 'Help Us Help Our Local Community' initiative, which helped raise funds for early learning centres.
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Pharmacy united on meds safety
Tuesday | Dec 10 2019LEADING pharmacy, consumer and Federal agencies want to see better use of existing funding and leverage digital health resources to improve quality use of medicines, discussions at the Medicines Safety Forum in Canberra revealed.
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Expand aged care scope
Tuesday | Dec 10 2019PHARMACY services provided in aged care facilities should be expanded as part of the Seventh Community Pharmacy Agreement (7CPA), union group, Professional Pharmacists Australia (PPA) believes.
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DoH’s prescriber note
Tuesday | Dec 10 2019THOUSANDS of General Practitioners will receive a letter in the coming days from the Department of Health (DoH) aimed at cutting inappropriate prescribing of psychotrophic medicines, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners' (RACGP's) newsGP revealed.
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Pharmacies braced for more bushfires
Monday | Dec 9 2019PHARMACISTS working on the NSW Far South Coast and Southern Tablelands are bracing themselves for a second week of severe fire conditions, and the potential for interruptions to supplies.
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Pharmacist saves life
Monday | Dec 9 2019A QUICK-THINKING Irish pharmacist is shining a light on the role of the profession after saving a man's life with an EpiPen last month.