Headlines
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Walmart axes pharmacists
Thursday | Jul 18 2019AMERICAN supermarket giant Walmart is estimated to have retrenched about 3% of its "health and wellness" workforce across the USA, including pharmacists, as part of a restructure of the business.
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GPs ignore pharmacists’ advice
Wednesday | Jul 17 2019GENERAL Practitioners implement fewer than 50% of medicine related recommendations pharmacists make, new research published in The Lancet reveals.
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Pharmacist reprimanded
Wednesday | Jul 17 2019LOCUM pharmacist, Lauren Murray, has been reprimanded by the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal in relation to allegations she misappropriate painkillers in 2014, while working at Broken Hill Hospital (PD 02 Aug 2018).
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Pharmacists must lead meds care
Tuesday | Jul 16 2019PHARMACISTS should be given a lead role in patient care whenever medicine is used in their treatment, Pharmaceutical Society of Australia National President, Dr Chris Freeman (pictured) believes.
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Babinda wins Qld PATY
Tuesday | Jul 16 2019PHARMACY assistant Bridgette Atkinson from Babinda Pharmacy has been chosen to represent Queensland at the National Finals of the 2019 Pharmacy Guild of Australia/ Maxigesic Pharmacy Assistant of the Year Award (PATY).
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Discounters eroding profession
Monday | Jul 15 2019PHARMACISTS in Western Australia fear that the ongoing corporatisation of the profession, alongside heavy discounting, will have a negative long-term impact.
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CHP is reviewing its code
Monday | Jul 15 2019CONSUMER Healthcare Products (CHP) Australia is seeking input from interested parties as the recently renamed organisation's Code of Practice is being reviewed.
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WA seeks national ownership rules
Friday | Jul 12 2019PHARMACISTS in Western Australia want to see national harmonisation of ownership rules across all states and territories in a state-wide review of pharmacy ownership reveals.
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TGA opioid RUM push
Friday | Jul 12 2019PAIN patients with unused opioids are being urged to return them to their local pharmacy, as part of a social media campaign being rolled out by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).
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Sigma Assistants celebrate
Friday | Jul 12 2019WESTERN Australia Sigma brands, Amcal+, Guardian, Discount Drug Stores, Chemist King, PharmaSave and Wholelife, celebrated their champions at the Sigma Pharmacy Assistant Annual Conference and Gala Awards.