Ownership bill keeps pharmacies in pharmacists’ hands
Queensland’s new ownership rules to “safeguard the interests of community pharmacies” Queensland’s Pharmacy Business Ownership Bill 2023 is set to come into effect within the next 18 months after being passed by …
What are you doing to Close the Gap?
Guild calls out injustice in healthcare access gap between First Nations people and non-Indigenous Australians. Community pharmacists across the country are being urged to reflect on their role in improving …
Sigma sees revenue drop, but indie pharmacies still loyal for now
Sigma said it has not seen a “mass exodus” in independent pharmacy customers following its Chemist Warehouse merger announcement, but full-year sales have been hit by the dwindling demand for …
Thank Your Pharmacist Day
Professional leaders, pharmacy groups including Chemist Warehouse and Pharmacy4Less, and students have taken to social media to express their gratitude to mark Thank Your Pharmacist Day Associate Professor Fei Sim, …
Access to locum relief a challenge for rural pharmacy
Rural pharmacists often struggle to secure relief coverage, despite government funding Staff recruitment, retention and access to locum services are among the biggest challenges facing rural pharmacies, a study finds. …
Pharmacists thanked
A leading pharmacist has thanked members of the profession, and asked the general public to do likewise Today (21 March 2024) the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia marks Thank Your Pharmacist …
System-wide change needed to ‘Close the Gap’
Funding to embed pharmacists into Aboriginal health services could help close the healthcare gap for Indigenous Australians System-wide reform, including embedding pharmacists into primary care teams delivering healthcare to Aboriginal …
World news wrapup: 21 March 2024
Lloydspharmacy £33.5m possible tax debt investigated; Detroit pharmacist sentenced over drug-related crimes; appeal over denied emergency contraception successful UK: According to UK pharmacy publication Chemist + Druggist, Lloydspharmacy liquidators have …
MedsAware: A minute with Lisa Pont
One pharmacist talks about the need for pharmacists to be brave when it comes to deprescribing Around MedsAware: Deprescribing Week 2024 (18-24 March), the AJP is presenting, in partnership with …
This government is not for wilting: Butler
Labor focused on getting “an outcome that is good for community pharmacy and also good for patients” from 8CPA The federal government will not “wilt” in its efforts to secure …
Wholesaler margins suffering
Steps are needed to reverse the decline of wholesaler remuneration during the 7CPA and add vaccines and section 100s to CSO, says a NPSA director Australia needs to foster a …
Trial offer opportunities for pharmacy
Dr Amy Page, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia’s (PSA’s) Victorian branch president, talks about the state’s pharmacy pilot and the opportunities it provides pharmacists In the latest edition of the …