Headlines
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Electronic scripts from early 2020: ADHA
Friday | Nov 15 2019THE Australian Digital Health Agency expects to see electronic prescriptions start to become available as soon as the first quarter of 2020, after the recent release of the final "Technical Framework" for software vendors to implement the system.
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UK’s ethnicity pay gap
Friday | Nov 15 2019BRITAIN'S major pharmacy chains are questioning the results of a survey that found a 15% gap in pay between caucasian community pharmacists and those from different ethnic backgrounds.
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Montgomery’s stellar career
Friday | Nov 15 2019AFTER 27-years with Corum Health, IT specialist Ken Montgomery (pictured) has announced his retirement, effective 13 Dec.
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GPs open to crisis dispensing changes
Thursday | Nov 14 2019GENERAL practitioners would welcome discussions on ways to bolster patients' access to medications during emergency situations.
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Coroner backs festival pill testing
Thursday | Nov 14 2019POLITICAL leaders in NSW are being urged to back medically supervised pilot pill testing trials at music festivals across the state this summer.
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Costs put patients off their medicine
Thursday | Nov 14 2019AUSTRALIANS living in the most socio-economically disadvantaged areas are twice as like to delay or not get a prescription filled than those in the least disadvantaged areas, data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reveals.
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Merck serves up new office
Thursday | Nov 14 2019THE official opening of Merck's new Sydney office in Macquarie Park (PD yesterday) saw former Aussie tennis champ, and now local MP, John Alexander OAM, assist Merck Chairman, Dr Frank Stangenberg-Haverkamp, in the official ribbon cutting.
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Fires highlight need for autonomy
Wednesday | Nov 13 2019BUSHFIRES raging across the country forcing people to evacuate from their homes highlight the need for pharmacists to be given greater freedom to dispense critical medicines to patients in need, Pharmaceutical Society of Australia National President, Dr Chris Freeman believes.
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Corum clarifies Pharmacy4Less deal
Wednesday | Nov 13 2019LISTED pharmacy software provider, Corum Group, has issued further information on its proposed agreement with the owners of the Pharmacy4Less Group (PD 25 Sep), detailing the conditions for the handover of shares worth almost $4 million relating to the development of a new cloud-based multi-store management system.
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Pharmacist urged to prepare for fires
Tuesday | Nov 12 2019PHARMACISTS from NSW, Queensland and Western Australia are being urged to be prepared for the impact of bush fires, as temperatures across Australia soar.