RAT program off to rocky start
Close to half of AJP readers are not participating in the concessional RAT program, our poll reveals Last week, the AJP asked whether readers’ pharmacies are taking part in the …
RAT prices: ACCC on the move
Complaints about pharmacies continue, but smaller stores are outstripping them on RAT price complaints, as the ACCC investigates reports Governments redirected the tests The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has …
Student interest in pharmacy waning, warns SHPA
Waiving HECS fees for regional, rural and remote pharmacy students and boosting accelerated graduate-entry pharmacy courses are among the ideas raised by SHPA The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia …
The week in review
Another week in which RATs were the key issue, with some recognition for outstanding pharmacists as well The TGA announced on Friday that it had provisionally approved Pfizer‘s COMIRNATY as …
Pharmacists to become ‘de facto’ GPs?
Patients could pay up to $55 for pharmacist consults in a “full scope” trial which has doctors up in arms The AMA has attacked a “confidential proposal to expand the …
Docs say UTI trial extension ‘a recipe for disaster’
GPs and urologists have slammed the extension of the UTI pharmacist prescribing pilot, warning of missed diagnoses and antibiotic resistance Earlier this month, the Pharmacy Guild, PSA and Queensland University …
Pharmacy course reinstated
Charles Darwin University has announced that to help manage the critical shortage of pharmacists in the Northern Territory, it is reinstating pharmacy training CDU’s Bachelor of Pharmacy course was first …
Pfizer boosters okayed for older kids
The TGA has provisionally approved the Pfizer jab as a booster shot for older children in a move the Guild describes as “logical” The Therapeutic Goods Administration said on Friday …
World news wrapup: 28 January 2022
Pharmacist brothers offer “Jabs with kebabs;” Irish pharmacy calls anti-vax stunt “quite sad;” pharmacist sentenced over fraud Cork, Ireland: Sunday World has reported that a group of anti-vaxxers descended on …
Govt ‘reckless and negligent’ over RATs, PPE
Pharmacy staff are struggling with crippling shortages of personal protective equipment, with those not providing COVID jabs left out in the cold, says union The Federal Government has failed to …
Pharmacists tell of RAT ‘lottery’
One pharmacist describes finding a RAT as like finding a Golden Ticket to a chocolate factory, as overwhelming demand hits the Guild’s website Another Labor politician has attacked the Morrison …
‘Complete chaos across Australia this morning.’
Labor says pharmacists have been left “high and dry” over the RAT supply crisis, as the Pharmacy Guild says stores are being “inundated” with queries The ALP has gone on …