Headlines
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Opioid education & awareness
Wednesday | Mar 14 2018PAINAUSTRALIA is calling for better education and awareness around opioid use, in light of evidence of significant harms and increasing use of opioids for chronic non-cancer pain.
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Expert evaluators sought
Wednesday | Mar 14 2018ADVANCING Practice is seeking the expertise of experienced pharmacists or non-pharmacist health professionals to evaluate pharmacists applying for the new "Advancing Practice" and "Advanced Practice" credentials for Australian pharmacists (PD 17 Nov 2017).
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Pain MedsCheck delayed
Tuesday | Mar 13 2018THE $20 million Pain MedsCheck scheme under the Pharmacy Trial Program has been delayed, with an update to Guild members from president George Tambassis confirming the original timeline for the project will not be achieved.
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Digital health consultation
Tuesday | Mar 13 2018THE Australian Digital Health Agency is inviting input from interested groups and individuals on the Australian National Digital Health Strategy in order to gain "collaboration on co-producing its implementation plan -- the Framework for Action".
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Guild opioid real-time push
Monday | Mar 12 2018THE Pharmacy Guild of Australia has reiterated its stance around a co-ordinated real-time monitoring system, as an essential way to deal effectively with opioid abuse and misuse in Australia.
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7CPA on APP2018 agenda
Friday | Mar 9 2018THE Pharmacy Guild will convene a special session at the upcoming Australian Pharmacy Professional (APP) conference to seek input from delegates on the Seventh Community Pharmacy Agreement.
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Sick-leave tickets a plus
Friday | Mar 9 2018COMMUNITY pharmacists take their responsibilities under the Act seriously, and should at all times comply with guidelines jointly developed by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia and the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, the Guild has said in a formal statement.
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The pharmacy path ahead
Thursday | Mar 8 2018THE Pharmacy Guild of Australia has released the initial findings of its Community Pharmacy 2025 project, including the results of focus groups and quantitative surveys across the sector.
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Cut cannabis access red tape
Thursday | Mar 8 2018THE Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has called for an end to the highly bureaucratic, time-consuming and expensive process for prescribing medicinal cannabis products for Australian patients.
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S4 codeine drives Maxigesic
Wednesday | Mar 7 2018LAST month's upscheduling of OTC codeine products to prescription-only has seen sales of AFT Pharmaceuticals' paracetamol/ibuprofen combination Maxigesic roughly double since the beginning of the year.