Headlines
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Friendlies vaccination surge
Tuesday | Jun 27 2017WESTERN Australia's Friendlies Pharmacy Group has this week achieved more than 22,000 flu vaccinations for the season, eclipsing last year's campaign by 27% to date.
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Sigma launches pathology
Monday | Jun 26 2017SIGMA Healthcare has today launched pathology health screenings throughout its Amcal Pharmacy network across Australia.
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ACT pharmacists to vax
Friday | Jun 23 2017THE ACT Pharmacist Vaccination Standards were amended this week to enable appropriately trained pharmacists to administer the diptheria, tetanus, a-cellular pertussis (dTpa) vaccine to adults without a prescription.
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Review report criticised
Friday | Jun 23 2017YESTERDAY'S release of the much-anticipated interim report from the Review of Pharmacy Remuneration and Regulation (PD breaking news) has attracted mixed feedback, with the Guild, Pharmaceutical Society of Australia and wholesalers all expressing concerns about the document.
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Guild flags codeine plan
Thursday | Jun 22 2017THE Pharmacy Guild says it wants to work constructively with governments to maintain "direct pharmacy access" to medicines containing codeine for the temporary relief of acute pain - despite the up-scheduling of these items effective 01 Feb 2018.
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Review report ‘imminent’
Thursday | Jun 22 2017THE Pharmacy Guild says it believes the long-anticipated Interim Report of the Pharmacy Remuneration and Regulation Review is likely to be released in the next week or so.
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Blackmores to advise China
Tuesday | Jun 20 2017AUSTRALIAN-LISTED natural health company Blackmores has been named to take a key leadership advisory role for the China Association for Quality Inspection (CAQI), a "high level non-profit Chinese organisation with responsibility for product quality inspection".
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Medlab cannabis studies
Tuesday | Jun 20 2017AUSTRALIAN-LISTED Medical life science company, Medlab Clinical Limited, has announced it has received Human Research Ethics Committee approvals by the Northern Sydney Local District, the Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, to begin human trials of two different patent pending cannabis-based medicines.
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CHS wins defence contract
Monday | Jun 19 2017SIGMA Healthcare says its new pharmaceutical supply contract with the Department of Defence (PD breaking news Fri) is a "great step in implementing our business strategy to diversify our earnings away from PBS and move to a more holistic healthcare model".
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Sanofi ‘Click & collect’ deal
Friday | Jun 16 2017SANOFI Consumer Healthcare has confirmed that its Bio-Organics Glycemix website will be connected to the Pharmacy Guild's new Click and Collect network - making the product available for consumers to purchase online and 'click and collect' at participating Guild member pharmacies.