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WA kids to get intranasal flu vax
Thursday | Oct 2 2025THE Western Australian Government has announced it will provide the FluMist intranasal influenza vaccine for children aged two to 12 years next year ahead of the 2026 flu season, a move welcomed by the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA).
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Fallout from Choice sunscreen testing continues
Thursday | Oct 2 2025THE Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has confirmed that 20 sunscreens sold in Australia are using the same base formula as Ultra Violette's Lean Screen, which rated SPF 4 in the Choice sunscreen tests earlier this year (PD 12 Jun), and expressed concerns with the UK testing lab used to provide initial SPF ratings.
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“Vaccine champ” recognised
Thursday | Oct 2 2025KERRY Savas (pictured), Principal Pharmacist at National Pharmacies Glenelg, has received the 2025 World Pharmacist Day Excellence Award for his "outstanding frontline work" in the vaccination space.
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Pharmacists, doctors join forces on med cannabis
Wednesday | Oct 1 2025THE NSW branches of the Royal Australian College of GPs (RACGP), the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) and the Australian Medical Association (AMA) have called on the NSW Government to act on rogue operators prescribing and dispensing medicinal cannabis.
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Guild, APC welcome RN prescribers, but “more work to do”
Wednesday | Oct 1 2025PRESCRIBING rights have been extended to registered nurses (RNs), with those who are suitably qualified being able to administer, obtain, possess, prescribe, supply and/or use scheduled medicines in partnership with authorised health practitioners.
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WA EACPP training begins
Wednesday | Oct 1 2025THE first cohort for the Western Australian Enhanced Access Community Pharmacy Pilot (EACPP) has officially begun training, marking a key step in expanding community-based health care across WA.
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Plan to reverse low vax rates
Tuesday | Sep 30 2025PUBLIC health experts are calling for coordinated action to reverse Australia's "extremely concerning" declining rates of childhood vaccination, providing practical strategies to improve uptake.
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ACS guidelines updated
Tuesday | Sep 30 2025THE National Heart Foundation of Australia and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand have released the Australian Clinical Guideline for Diagnosing and Managing Acute Coronary Syndromes 2025.
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Call for multidisciplinary model
Monday | Sep 29 2025GENERAL practice care is changing to meet the needs of patients in Australia, with coordinated general practice-led multidisciplinary teams providing more comprehensive, patient centred care, according to the 2025 Royal Australian College of GPs (RACGP) Health of the Nation report, which will be released next week.
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Naloxone awareness, uptake rise
Monday | Sep 29 2025THE Drug Trends program at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), UNSW Sydney, has released findings from its annual national surveys of people who use drugs, with encouraging trends around awareness and uptake of opioid antagonist naloxone.
