Headlines
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More pharmacy vax feedback
Friday | Mar 17 2017PHARMACY Daily readers continue to react to comments by Professor Robert Booy of the Influenza Specialists Group (PD Tue), who earlier this week claimed pharmacist flu vaccinations were using old stock not formulated for 2017 strains.
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Guild urges Hunt to act
Friday | Mar 17 2017PHARMACY Guild executive director David Quilty has asked federal health minister Greg Hunt to follow up his positive speech at APP last week (PD 10 Mar) with urgent action.
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Two-stage penalty rates plan
Thursday | Mar 16 2017THE Australian Retailers Association (ARA) has proposed a two-stage transitional pay arrangement of the Sunday penalty rate reduction.
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Pharmacy GP trial extended
Thursday | Mar 16 2017CANBERRA'S Capital Health Network (CHN) has announced a year-long extension of a trial examining the benefits of using non-dispensing pharmacists in three local general practices.
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Guild Intern of the Year named
Wednesday | Mar 15 2017THE Pharmacy Guild of Australia and MIMS Australia have announced that Morgan Kennedy from Capital Chemist Wanniassa in the ACT is the 2016 MIMS Pharmacy Guild Intern of the Year.
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ASMI hails Canadian switch study
Wednesday | Mar 15 2017NEW research out of Canada has shown that almost $1 billion could be freed up from the country's healthcare system and the broader economy simply by switching three categories of medicine from prescription to over-the-counter.
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Pharmacy vaccine outrage
Wednesday | Mar 15 2017THE pharmacy sector had a huge reaction to comments by Influenza Specialist Group spokesman Professor Robert Booy in yesterday's Pharmacy Daily, quoting an MJA Insight article where he incorrectly claimed some chemists were offering "cheap flu shots this year using 2016 vaccine stock".
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Expert warns on chemist vax
Tuesday | Mar 14 2017VACCINATION expert Professor Robert Booy has suggested that influenza vaccines administered by general practitioners are preferable to those available via pharmacy.
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HCCC Rx weight loss alert
Tuesday | Mar 14 2017THE NSW Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) has issued a formal warning about the activities of the Medical Weightloss Institute which ceased trading a month ago.
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GSK, Bayer to pull OTC codeine
Monday | Mar 13 2017GLAXOSMITHKLINE and Bayer Pharmaceuticals have both confirmed their intentions to withdraw from the OTC codeine combination analgesic markets next year, following the TGA's decision to upschedule the products to prescription-only next year.