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Priceline & Clear Skincare lift API
Friday | Oct 25 2019GROWTH in market share and contributions from each of Australian Pharmaceutical Industries' (API's) Priceline Pharmacy, Consumer Brands and Clear Skincare businesses, together with solid cash generation and stable market share from the pharmacy distribution business, have boosted the company's earnings, the company reported to the Australian Securities Exchange.
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Expanded scope support
Friday | Oct 25 2019THE Queensland Premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, has announced strong support for the "expanded role of pharmacists in improving the management of chronic disease and illness and in the provision of government healthcare programs".
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New Qld Guild Director
Thursday | Oct 24 2019GERARD Benedet has been named as the new Director for the Queensland Branch of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia.
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Vic holds on cannabis policy
Thursday | Oct 24 2019VICTORIA will not follow the lead of NSW and Queensland in streamlining the approval process for prescribing Schedule 8 (S8)cannabis medications.
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AHPRA logos morphing
Thursday | Oct 24 2019THE Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) and the 15 National Boards, which regulate over 744,000 practitioners across 16 health professions are rolling out newly modified logos (pictured right), replacing the previous style pictured above.
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PBS no political play thing: McBride
Wednesday | Oct 23 2019FEDERAL Health Minister, Greg Hunt, is being accused of politicising the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS)" by announcing new listings to gain attention.
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Managing health privacy in pharmacy
Wednesday | Oct 23 2019THE Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC)has produced a wide-ranging document to support health professionals, including direct reference to pharmacists, to guide them around issues of health privacy.
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Counselling around anti-vaxers
Wednesday | Oct 23 2019PHARMACISTS are universally supportive of the science behind vaccination programs and occasionally are asked how to handle a friend or relative who is anti-vaccination or antiscience/conspiracy theory oriented.
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Samuel launches attack on pharmacy
Tuesday | Oct 22 2019CLAIMS that patients in regional parts of Australia are paying five times more for some medicines than their metropolitan peers, are being dismissed by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia.
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PSA QLD honours West
Tuesday | Oct 22 2019QUEENSLAND pharmacists Gary West of Mermaid Waters (Lifetime Achievement Gold Medal), Vivien Hsu from Surfers' Paradise (Bowl of Hygeia Pharmacist of the Year), Brisbane's Nicolette Ellis (Early Career Pharmacist of the Year) and Emma Dall'Alba, from Malanda outside of Cairns (James Dare Graduate of the Year) have been recognised for their outstanding contribution to the health of Queenslanders in the Queensland Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) President's Awards presented at the Queensland Annual Therapeutic Update in Brisbane last weekend.