Headlines
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Health professionals top cyber targets
Thursday | Oct 10 2019PHARMACY owners are being urged by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) to embrace guidelines introduced to minimise their risk of data breaches.
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PDL raises dispensing concerns
Thursday | Oct 10 2019PHARMACISTS are being urged by indemnity insurer, Pharmaceutical Defence Limited (PDL), to follow established dispensing protocols in order to avoid errors.
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AMA continues attacks on pharmacy
Wednesday | Oct 9 2019FRESH calls for Australian pharmacists to be empowered to work to their full scope of practice are once again being rebuffed by the Australian Medical Association (AMA).
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NSW regulator raids ORT pharmacies
Wednesday | Oct 9 2019NEW South Wales Health has recently conducted a blitz against pharmacies which provide opioid-replacement therapy (ORT) services, resulting in members of PDL seeking support in handling regulator inquiries, the indemnity insurance provider has advised in its latest Practice Alert.
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Naturopath banned forever
Wednesday | Oct 9 2019A NATUROPATH who recommended a sodium bicarbonate treatment as a cure for cancer has been permanently prohibited by the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) from providing any health services.
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Supply shortages hit kids’ medicines
Tuesday | Oct 8 2019PRICE disclosure is fuelling supply shortages of high-volume low-cost medicines, including formulations of paediatric antibiotics.
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GP & residential care options
Tuesday | Oct 8 2019THE Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) South Australian branch is to deliver two new two-year projects integrating pharmacists into general practice and aged care to address healthcare in regional areas of the state.
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Codeine move fails to tackle addiction
Friday | Oct 4 2019UPSCHEDULING low-dose codeine products to prescription-only is not tackling the issue of addiction, Pharmacy Guild of Australia NSW Branch President, David Heffernan (pictured), says.
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Hunt pushes biosimilars
Friday | Oct 4 2019FEDERAL Minister for Health, Greg Hunt, has urged Australia's health professionals to "embrace more innovative ways to support the appropriate uptake of biosimilar medicines".
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SA Health Minister backs pharmacists
Thursday | Oct 3 2019SOUTH Australian Minister for Health and Wellbeing, Stephen Wade (pictured), believes the case to empower pharmacists to work to their full scope is going to get stronger.