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Keep calm, future is bright urges PPA
Friday | May 19 2023THE Professional Pharmacists Australia (PPA) is calling on its members and all pharmacy employees to remain calm, despite the furore around 60-day dispensing, emphasising the "future for pharmacists is brighter than they want you to believe".
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Tassie concerns raised
Friday | May 19 2023TASMANIAN pharmacy owners met Labor Senator Anne Urquhart in Ulverstone this week, to explain the impacts of the Govt's move to 60-day dispensing.
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New Qld Health Minister
Friday | May 19 2023QUEENSLAND'S new Health Minister Shannon Fentiman (pictured) was appointed yesterday following a cabinet reshuffle, with industry bodies keen to work closely with her across a range of initiatives.
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80-year-old antibiotic gets a relook
Friday | May 19 2023AN OLD antibiotic may provide much-needed protection against multi-drug resistant bacterial infections, according to a new study published recently in the journal PLOS Biology by James Kirby of Harvard Medical School, US, and colleagues.
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Works 2x faster
Friday | May 19 2023SFI Health, home of Flordis, recommends Prospan for clinically proven five-action chesty cough relief that helps clear patients' cough twice as fast than left untreated.
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Free BP checks
Friday | May 19 2023BLOOMS is offering free blood pressure checks by a pharmacist as a core health service across its network, to raise awareness around World Hypertension Day (17 May).
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Survey to measure workforce burnout
Friday | May 19 2023THE second ANU survey on understanding stress and burnout in community pharmacists is released now, three years after the last one was conducted in 2020.
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Ideas calculator
Friday | May 19 2023WIZARD Pharmacy has hosted workshops with its franchisees to deliver the group's strategies to reduce the impact of 60-day dispensing.
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FRED IT seeks ACCC approval
Friday | May 19 2023THE recent award of the national contract for provision of electronic prescription services to FRED IT Group (PD 11 May) has seen the lodgement of a request for authorisation of anti-competitive conduct with the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC).
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No COVID hearts!
Friday | May 19 2023RECEIVING a heart transplant from someone who died with active COVID-19 could put you at a higher risk of death in the months following the procedure, according to international research.
