The week in review
We take a look back at the week in Australian pharmacy Penalty rates continue to be a hot topic: almost a third of employee pharmacists who responded to our poll …
New York subway pharmacy ad ‘dangerous’
A New York-based e-pharmacy has seen a significant backlash to its subway advertising, which NPS MedicineWise has labelled “dangerous” Capsule, a recent startup which says it prides itself on “prescription …
Type 1 diabetes trial to follow through childhood
Pharmacists are being encouraged to refer patients to a new Type 1 diabetes trial Type 1 Diabetes in children is twice as common as it was 20 years ago. To …
Organised support helps women keep breastfeeding
More support could help women keep breastfeeding for longer, according to a large international review Researchers looked at 73 studies with a total of almost 75,000 women and found that …
‘Minor’ penalty rates cut slammed
Penalty rates have been a hot topic in Parliament this week, with several politicians slamming the Fair Work Commission’s decision It is a decision that will see Sunday penalty rates …
DDS announces PPI success
In 2016, the average Discount Drug Stores pharmacy achieved 30% more cases than the average Australian pharmacy according to GuildCare PPI statistics DDS says it has also achieved 32% higher …
Forum: donate empty S8 boxes to kinder?
“I have been donating empty boxes, bottles, lids to my children’s kinder and school for quite a few years for the children to make constructions out of. They have always …
World news wrapup: 2 March 2017
We take a look at community pharmacy around the world Belanguru, India: A pharmacist’s plot to “expose” an e-pharmacy’s trade in banned drugs has backfired on him after it filed …
Chemist Warehouse group bankrolls local expansion
The Chemist Warehouse group is financing the expansion of a Bendigo shopping centre, according to local news media According to the Bendigo Advertiser, a planning application was tendered to the …
Stephen King drops out of APP
Professor Stephen King has advised that he will no longer be presenting at next week’s APP2017 conference Professor King, chair of the Remuneration and Regulation Review, was to have presented …
Pharmacy’s expo brings the community together
Samford Chemmart Pharmacy has organised its fourth Samford Health and Wellbeing Expo in a row, featuring more than 60 stalls Samford Chemmart, which won the Community Engagement award in the …
Greg Hunt to open APP
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia and the APP organising committee have announced that the Federal Minister for Health, the Hon Greg Hunt MP, will attend APP2017 APP Chairman Kos Sclavos …