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GPs demand decision reversal on women’s health trial
The national health minister’s announcement at last week’s APP has attracted praise from within the profession and dissent from medical groups Plans to allow qualified pharmacists to prescribe oral contraceptives …
Fuel uncertainty makes HMRs ‘untenable’
“Right now there’s a fuel problem, but it will very soon become a health problem,” says a top consultant pharmacist, lobbying again for telehealth delivery of HMRs Award-winning consultant pharmacist …
TWC joins injection pen recycling pilot
Recycling program aimed at keeping medical injection pens out of landfill to start in the second half of 2026 Patients using injectable medications will be able to have their injection …
Meds shortages could compromise scope: Ruston
The Coalition’s health spokeswoman weighed in on how the Middle East war and our trading relationships could affect future supply The shadow health minister says medicines shortages could undermine scope …
Co-owners to face proceedings alongside employees: tribunal
A Sydney Chemist Warehouse co-owner has argued that “positive acts” such as dispensing without a script are not the same as failing to detect an employee’s improper conduct The Health …
‘No such thing as full scope’
Australian pharmacists should not set a finite boundary to their potential scope, Irish Pharmacy Union president tells APP Pharmacists’ scope of practice is constantly evolving to enable the profession to …
The week in review
Soaring pharmacy applications, hospital pharmacists face pay cut and a robbery on the same day as a premier’s visit were among our hot topics this week Despite warnings that pharmacies …
Pharmacy’s billionaires’ club gets new members
New rich list ranks seven pharmacy identities among the top 250 wealthiest Australians Wealth is continuing to grow for Chemist Warehouse’s trio of co-founders, with The Australian estimating that the net worth of …
Middle East conflict unlikely to fuel immediate meds shortages: Guild
Guild keen to avoid Iran war-induced panic-buying of essential medicines Pharmacy Guild of Australia national president, Professor Trent Twomey, is advising patients not to stockpile medicines in response to the ongoing conflict in …
Listening and understanding key to countering misinformation
It’s “amazing” for us all to have medicines information at our fingertips, says one top pharmacist – but how can the general public be encouraged to find good evidence? MedsAware …
‘Shocked’ pharmacist notes rise in anti-Islamic commentary
Workers in a Victorian pharmacy have been subjected to a tirade of Islamophobic abuse The ABC has reported that the Ballarat pharmacy – which it has not identified in a …
First high-risk medicines list in aged care published
Researchers at Monash University have developed the first national consensus list of medicines with a high risk of harm in Australian residential aged care The list was compiled together with …