Headlines
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PSS overseas exploration
Monday | Oct 15 2018PHARMACISTS' Support Service (PSS) Executive Officer Kay Dunkley recently visited the UK to meet some of her foreign counterparts at the International Practitioner Health Summit 2018.
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CSO review outcome soon
Friday | Oct 12 2018THERE'S speculation that the Health Department could release the highly anticipated findings of its review of the Community Service Obligation within the next couple of weeks, with rhetoric around the issue ramping up in recent days.
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SA Christmas Pageant sponsors
Thursday | Oct 11 2018FROM 2019, South Australia's nationally watched Christmas Pageant will enter into a partnership with a new naming rights sponsor, National Pharmacies.
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Exclusive direct warning
Thursday | Oct 11 2018THE National Pharmaceutical Services Association has renewed a call to end exclusive-direct distribution of PBS medicines, saying if monopoly supply arrangements continue there will be no back-ups to protect patients from a single point of failure in the supply chain.
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TWC healthy diet shake-up
Thursday | Oct 11 2018TERRYWHITE Chemmart (TWC) has announced a "refresh" of its Tony Ferguson 12-week weight loss program with new recipes and meal plans focusing on protein levels, sugar content, calories and a complementary exercise plan.
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Specialty Practice thrives
Wednesday | Oct 10 2018MORE than 2,000 Australian pharmacists are now active across the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA) Specialty Practice program proving its worth as a professional and career growth vehicle, the SHPA says.
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Aged care meds in focus
Wednesday | Oct 10 2018THE Federal Government's newly convened Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety will consider medication management as part of its now-confirmed Terms of Reference.
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UQ students in the know
Wednesday | Oct 10 2018PHARMACY Guild Queensland Branch President, Trent Twomey, was among the presenters at an event last week at the University of Queensland, with attendees including students, pharmacists and academics.
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Illicit codeine use decline
Tuesday | Oct 9 2018THE use of low dose codeine for "non-medicinal/pain purposes" has declined significantly in Australia, according to a new report from the University of NSW's National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) released yesterday.
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Work certificates update
Tuesday | Oct 9 2018THE Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) and the Pharmacy Guild of Australia have released the updated Absence from Work Certificates Guidelines for Pharmacists to assist community pharmacists who provide this service for people in their community.