How will the second tranche affect you?
The second tranche of medicines available under 60-day dispensing is now live – and we want to know how it will affect you It’s no secret that the 60-day dispensing …
Three million 60-day scripts written by January’s end
Health minister Mark Butler is talking up the second tranche of medicines available under 60-day dispensing, saying pharmacy applications are up “The Albanese Government is making medicines cheaper by doubling …
Tribunal notes ‘demonstrated willingness to seek help’
A pharmacist spotted forged scripts for alprazolam and lorazepam, written by a registered nurse A Victorian nurse has been reprimanded and his registration suspended after he stole blank scripts from …
Pharmacists back NSW RSV decision
NSW residents are being encouraged to visit their pharmacist to get an RSV vaccine The NSW government has become the first Australian state to allow pharmacists to initiate and administer …
SA health access expands
Two Chemist Warehouses have opened their doors 24-7 in Adelaide Following the 24-7 opening of the National Pharmacies store in Norwood in February, the Chemist Warehouse Salisbury Plain at Saints …
The week in review
Questions abound this week, as we wonder about the whereabouts of the 8CPA, we keep an eye on the Dunkley by-election…and what’s going on with compounding? Negotiations for the Eighth …
‘Like every service they must be used safely’
The TGA is looking at cracking down on the compounding of injectable weight loss medicines, following the concerns it expressed last year The Therapeutic Goods Administration has announced that it …
Pharmacists poised to relieve GP shortage-related backlog
Doctors are complaining that they’ve been left in the dark about the north Queensland scope of practice pilot – but pharmacists are ready to get started The Australian Medical Association’s …
Allegedly unlawfully manufactured semaglutide seized
Authorities have swooped on a Melbourne pharmacy this week, seizing semaglutide, peptides and human growth hormones – and they’ve warned pharmacists to be careful about compounding The Therapeutic Goods Administration, …
If medicines are not special, are magazines?
Newsagents’ “cosy systems of exclusivity” watched by pharmacy as OTC medications head to supermarkets…and should drugs be distributed only through doctors? Welcome to April 1979… Our April 1979 issue opens …
World news wrapup: 1 March 2024
US cyber attack impacts pharmacies; NZ dispensing error saw loratadine laced with haloperidol; UK pharmacists burning out New Zealand: The Health and Disability Commissioner has found a pharmacy breached the …
TWC winner ‘excited for what the future holds’
Therese Lambert has been named the winner of this year’s Rhonda White Leadership Award Lambert was honoured during the TerryWhite Chemmart ELEVATE conference, which saw nearly 800 delegates from around …