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Getting the message out
Relaxed medicine advertising guidelines are set to boost downscheduling applications, industry believes Recent reforms to advertising regulations for Schedule 3 medicines are a “big win” for consumers, pharmacy and industry, …
‘Get some guts you princesses’
There were some low blows and cheap shots at the Pharmacy Guild’s Great Debate on the Saturday afternoon of APP2018 Were things really better in the “good old days”? This …
Amazon could ‘damage sectors and destroy jobs’
Is it possible that the online retail giant could acquire a large pharmacy group like Chemist Warehouse? Experts aren’t ruling it out. Here’s how to prepare Amazon are a potential …
Women in pharmacy: ‘We’ve gotta toughen up a bit’.
Women need to take control of their own future in pharmacy, and seek advocates, delegates to the APP2018 conference heard Facilitator Wendy Phillips, former executive director of the Pharmacy Guild …
The week in review
All eyes were on the Gold Coast this week, as thousands of pharmacists headed up to the Australian Pharmacy Professional Conference It’s been a big week for community pharmacy, and …
Medicine supply under threat
Guild backs NPSA and calls for PBS listing of medicines to be conditional on supply through CSO wholesalers Action is needed to protect Australia’s struggling medicine wholesale section, speakers at …
Disappointment for King, Friends of Science in Medicine
Friends of Science in Medicine’s Ian Carr is disappointed that the Government has not taken up a King Review suggestion that pharmacies not sell homeopathy The final report had stated that …
Aye Karumba! Rural competition winner named
Karumba Pharmacy in North Queensland has been named the winner of the Pharmacy Guild’s 2018 video competition for rural and remote pharmacies across Australia The competition gave rural and remote …
Scope of practice ‘contentious’ but must grow: King
For the first time, Labor’s new National Platform sets out a role for the pharmacy sector, says Shadow Health Minister Catherine King Speaking at the Australian Pharmacy Professional conference on …
Pharmacist prescribing by 2020: Jackson
PSA president says prescribing rights for pharmacists are imminent and it is a “travesty” they don’t have them yet Pharmacists may soon be extended prescribing rights if all goes to …
TWCM signs three-year agreement with MedAdvisor
The partnership, which includes rollout of a customised app, “cements” MedAdvisor’s existing relationship with TerryWhite Chemmart After just releasing its March quarter revenue results, MedAdvisor has announced that it has …
What was the government’s response to the King Review?
Health Minister confirms the government has rejected proposals of generic medicines tendering and machine dispensing, but has not ruled out keeping the $1 discount or abolishing HMR caps as yet …