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‘Common-sense reforms’ remove barriers to meds access
Legislative reforms pave the way for improved access to medicines for Tasmanian patients and visitors to the Apple Isle Tasmanian pharmacists will be able to dispense prescriptions for controlled drugs, …
Award win for NAPSA’s Indigenous chair
Pharmacy student takes home Indigenous Allied Health Australia (IAHA) honour James Cook University’s Shi-Anne Wallace has been named the 2025 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Allied Health Student of the Year. Currently a fourth-year pharmacy student, Wallace, a …
Sandoz drops JustMeds denosumab program promotion
Grassroots response pushes biosimilar manufacturer to rethink its medicine delivery service Sandoz has ceased promotion of a program aimed at boosting uptake of biosimilars after community pharmacists raised concerns about …
A host of awards
AdPha is now celebrating members’ achievements, conference awards, winners of the AdPha Resident of the Year, and newly renamed KC Leong Memorial Registrar of the Year In the closing plenary …
Man guilty of holding himself out as medical practitioner
Anyone with information regarding a man who pretended to be a general practitioner is asked to get in touch with the regulator The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) has …
‘Few professionals have both perspectives’
Australian Clinical Pharmacy Award winner Dr Jonathan Penm has told colleagues why pharmacists are perfectly placed as researchers… and advised they have fun along the way Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) …
Vic scope program gets rebrand
Victoria’s Community Pharmacist Program is being renamed as Chemist Care Now, Monash commences enrolments for its pharmacist prescribing course State Minister for Health, Mary-Anne Thomas officially announced the launch of Monash University’s Graduate Certificate …
First technician wins AdPha Medal of Merit
AdPha calls award-winner Tara Clayson-Fisher a “trailblazer for the profession” as she becomes the first tech to take out the prestigious award Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) awarded Tara Clayson-Fisher FANZCAP …
Mounjaro contraception advice updated
Product information to recommend patients taking Mounjaro switch to non-oral contraceptives for four weeks after each dose An investigation by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) into the potential for reduced effectiveness of oral contraceptives during initiation …
TGA updates product warning for GLP-1s
Product warnings across GLP-1 RA class of medications aligned on the potential risk of suicidal ideation Health professionals are being urged to monitor patients using glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA) medications for the emergence or …
New protections for complainants
It is now an offence to retaliate against anyone who raises concerns with regulators, Ahpra has announced People who alert regulators to concerns about health practitioners will have greater protection …
SSSI issued for nicorandil tablets
Forecast intermittent shortages of nicorandil prompt regulator to announce SSSI Pharmacists are being authorised to substitute brand and strength of nicorandil products without patients needing a new prescription under a Serious Scarcity Substitution …