What helped halve oxycodone use?
Oxycodone use almost halved after changes to packaging and prescribing practices were made in 2019, new research has found Dr Rory Verhagen, from UQ’s Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences, analysed …
World news wrapup: 12 September 2024
NZ baby stopped breathing after dispensing error; UK pharmacist’s efforts to help stymied by EpiPen shortage; Ireland cracks down on vapes New Zealand: A pharmacist breached the Code of Health …
PBS, CWH data reveal costs of incontinence
Since 2010, the number of Australians with incontinence has gone up 53%, new data shows A new report from Deloitte Access Economics commissioned for the Continence Foundation of Australia, has …
Pharmacy owner ‘acted in contempt’ of health department: tribunal
A unregistered pharmacy owner supplied at least 15,000 pharmaceutical benefits since his approval to supply them was cancelled, a tribunal has heard The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has heard a request …
‘Pregnant women are vulnerable to the whims of market forces’
Experts are warning of a critical shortage of obstetric medicines, putting women at risk of pre-eclampsia and post-partum haemorrhage Supplies of several crucial obstetric medicines are running short in Australia, …
Vision for the future wants empowered pharmacists
A nationally-coordinated response strategy is needed to address fluctuations in medication supply, say one group of pharmacists This is just one of 39 recommendations made in Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha)’s …
NDIS: the struggle to include pharmacists
Consultant pharmacists can now provide home medicines reviews and residential management reviews to NDIS recipients—but they still face barriers and hurdles to providing care. Megan Haggan takes a look at …
The week in review
Cost of living was again the focus this week, with the third tranche of 60-day dispensing medicines becoming available The third tranche of medicines became available under 60-day dispensing, prompting …
SA move enhances national consistency: PSA
Pharmacists in South Australia are now able to administer medicines to their patients, the state’s office of the chief pharmacist has confirmed The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia welcomed the announcement, …
How to survive telephone shopping and video phones
There’s careless whispers coming from Canberra about a potential reduction in the number of pharmacies in Australia, as AJP goes back to the future of the first Guild-Government agreement It’s …
PBS fraud pharmacist ‘was at risk of losing everything’
In cancelling a pharmacist’s registration, a tribunal says that if his financial fears could factor into his defrauding the PBS, other pharmacists could do the same Between January 2018 and …
‘Everyone works outside their scope of practice’
A hospital coordinator said, “What do you want me to do, cry?” while being interviewed over a medicine she obtained for discharge from a closed dispensary The Fair Work Commission …