The week in review
What a week! Between the Chemist Warehouse-Sigma merger and the scope of practice review report, it was a huge few days in the pharmacy sector This week the ACCC announced …
‘It has become so stressful … I am considering changing professions’
Medicines shortages are taking a toll on the majority of pharmacists, according to a new survey, with almost a third reporting patient frustration over GLP-1s An “overwhelming majority” of pharmacists …
Pharmacists South Australia’s Local Heroes
Award win recognition of the positive impact pharmacists have on the community South Australian pharmacists, Irfan and Sobia Hashimi are in line for Australia Day Eve recognition after being named …
Pharmacists ‘ready and willing’: APC
The Australian Pharmacy Council (APC) welcomes the release of the Unleashing the Potential of our Health Workforce – Scope of Practice Review Final Report Led by Professor Mark Cormack, the …
Essential guidance updated
An “essential resource” has been updated, says FIP Statements on pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences education (The “Nanjing Statements”), developed by the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) in 2016 to guide the …
Sigma/CWH merger to change pharmacy
Wesfarmers Health forecasts increased corporatisation of community pharmacy The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC’s) green light to Sigma Healthcare’s merger with Chemist Warehouse (CWH) will have a major impact …
Worst whooping cough year since vaccines introduced
“You’re doing a good job,” one infectious diseases expert says to pharmacists, encouraging them to help in the fight against whooping cough Australia is currently enduring its largest whooping cough …
Readers react: ‘This decision will shift the pharmacy industry’s landscape’
Pharmacists voice concern over competition watchdog green lighting Sigma’s Chemist Warehouse merger Pharmacists are questioning the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC’s) decision not to oppose the proposed $8.8 billion …
‘Between the two there was no compromise’
The AJP goes back to the 1950s with historic legislation being passed in Victoria, to allow Friendly Societies to dispense – plus price-cutting, antibiotic stewardship and the likely outlawing of …
Professional misconduct possibility probed in child assault case
A pharmacist has faced tribunal after she pleaded guilty to a count of assault against her child, whom she hit a number of times with a coat hanger The pharmacist …
Pharmacy now just ordinary commerce: Barnes
Guild’s mantra that pharmacy and pharmaceuticals are not ordinary items of commerce may no longer hold true after ACCC green lights Sigma/Chemist Warehouse merger The competition watchdog’s decision not to …
Credentialed pharmacists wanted
Pharmacists are being asked to take part in a post-hospitalisation medicines review study Hunter New England and Central Coast Primary Health Network (HNECC PHN) is inviting local pharmacists to join …