News
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Paramedic scope expanded
Monday | Feb 10 2025THE Pharmacy Guild of Australia, Victoria Branch has welcomed new laws allowing paramedic practitioners to deliver urgent care and prescribe scheduled medicines.
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Immunisation zoster update
Monday | Feb 10 2025THE zoster (herpes zoster) chapter of the Australian Immunisation Handbook has been updated to reflect the removal of Zostavax.
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New Darwin-based training program to launch
Monday | Feb 10 2025PHARMACISTS across the Northern Territory will be able to access training enabling them to treat a wider variety of conditions, thanks to the launch of the Graduate Certificate of Advanced Practice and Prescribing for Pharmacists program at James Cook University in Darwin.
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Sigma looking up
Monday | Feb 10 2025SIGMA Healthcare has upgraded its full year normalised EBIT guidance for the year ending 31 Jan 2025 to $64-$70 million, up from the $50-$60 million range previously guided in Sep 2024.
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ACCC rejects baby milk code
Monday | Feb 10 2025THE Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) has denied reauthorisation sought by the Infant Nutrition Council for its industry code on the marketing of infant formula.
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Dispensary Corner 10 Feb 25
Monday | Feb 10 2025CANDLES are bad for your brain power, according to new research from Birmingham.
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SA leads on pharmacist vaccinations
Friday | Feb 7 2025SOUTH Australian pharmacist immunisers can now authorise and administer any vaccine within their individual scope of practice, including for the first time travel health vaccines for cholera, rabies and typhoid.
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Pharmacists present to loneliness inquiry
Friday | Feb 7 2025PHARMACY Addressing Loneliness and Social isolation (PALS) and the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) provided evidence yesterday to the NSW Legislative Council Standing Committee on Social Issues regarding its inquiry into the prevalence, causes and impacts of loneliness in NSW.
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Invest in pharmacists, says PSA
Friday | Feb 7 2025IN ITS pre-Budget submission, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) is urging the Federal Government to invest in pharmacists, supporting them to step up to help ease pressure on the wider healthcare system and deliver better patient outcomes.
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IPA delivers 9.1% sales growth in 2024
Friday | Feb 7 2025INDEPENDENT Pharmacies Australia (IPA) has announced a significant 9.1% growth based on like-for-like pharmacy sales year-on-year in 2024.
