Headlines
-
Minfos software upgrade
Friday | Jun 16 2017EBOS offshoot Minfos has released a major upgrade of its pharmacy software platform, with significant enhancements including a new modern design and automatic product updates, scripts on file alert and named discount functionality.
-
TGA launches meds app
Thursday | Jun 15 2017THE Therapeutic Goods Administration is urging pharmacists to help promote a new 'MedSearch' smartphone app, which aims to provide users with up-to-date, easy to access Consumer Medicine Information and Product Information for registered prescription medicines.
-
Pharmacy palliative care $200k
Thursday | Jun 15 2017NSW Minister for Health Brad Hazzard this week announced a $200,000 package for "community pharmacy initiatives to improve medication management for palliative care patients".
-
New dispensing guidelines
Wednesday | Jun 14 2017THE Pharmaceutical Society of Australia has opened consultation on revised Dispensing Practice Guidelines, after a review to support implementation of revised Professional Practice Standards.
-
Hospital drug shortages
Wednesday | Jun 14 2017PHARMACEUTICAL therapy shortages in hospitals are more prevalent than previously understood, according to a Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA) snapshot survey of pharmacists across Australian hospitals.
-
Analgesics appropriate – ASMI
Tuesday | Jun 13 2017PARACETAMOL-IBUPROFEN combination medicines are safe and effective for the short-term relief of acute pain when taken in accordance with the directions on the label, the Australian Self Medication Industry (ASMI) says.
-
Queen’s Birthday gongs
Tuesday | Jun 13 2017THE contributions of several leading Australian pharmacists have been highlighted in the annual Queen's Birthday Honours list (PD breaking news yesterday), including former Pharmacy Guild president Kos Sclavos being made a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia.
-
Pharmacists lose standing
Friday | Jun 9 2017WHILE health professionals generally have again maintained their position in society as the most highly regarded professions in the latest Roy Morgan Research polls, pharmacists have lost ground to GPs and nurses.
-
ACCC re-authorises e-script pact
Friday | Jun 9 2017THE Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has granted interim authorisation to allow continued revenue sharing between electronic prescription providers eRx and IP MDS Pty Ltd (formerly MediSecure Pty Ltd).
-
Competency standards push
Friday | Jun 9 2017THE Australian Pharmacy Council (APC) is urging Australia's pharmacists and future pharmacists to explore the national competency standards framework for pharmacists in Australia recently released by the Pharmacy Practitioner Development Committee (PPDC) (PD 01 Jun).