NEW wages sheets: Last week the Fair Work Commission provided a final determination on the Annual Wage Review 2017-2018, incorporating the new minimum wage rates.
The rates for the Pharmacy Industry Award have been calculated and placed in wages sheets and uploaded to the Members’ section of the Guild website.
Members of the Guild will need to be logged in to view them here: www.guild.org.au/resources/workplace-relations/wage-rates/
THE Consumers Health Forum of Australia (CHF) is seeking a voice at the table when negotiations begin for the next Community Pharmacy Agreement (CPA) following confirmation by Health Minister Greg Hunt that the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) will also be involved (PD yesterday).
CONSIDERED one of Australia’s most urgent public health crises, opioid-related harm is the central theme in the latest issue of the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA)’s flagship organ the Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research (JPPR).
FEDERAL Health Minister Greg Hunt has made a commitment to build into the Seventh Community Pharmacy Agreement (7CPA) “the expanded scope of practice, where pharmacy will be involved increasingly in preventive health.”