‘Like every service they must be used safely’
The TGA is looking at cracking down on the compounding of injectable weight loss medicines, following the concerns it expressed last year The Therapeutic Goods Administration has announced that it …
Pharmacists poised to relieve GP shortage-related backlog
Doctors are complaining that they’ve been left in the dark about the north Queensland scope of practice pilot – but pharmacists are ready to get started The Australian Medical Association’s …
Duck for cover
Urgent recall ordered for toy bath ducks sold in hundreds of pharmacies A toy bath duck set sold in many Australian pharmacies has been urgently withdrawn from sale, and made …
Government adds 238 PBS items to 60-day dispensing
Expanded 60-day dispensing list includes medication for the treatment of conditions such as diabetes, migraine and bipolar disorder Prescribers can now issue prescriptions for two months’ supply of an additional …
Call for action on cannabis
Former Guild president wants medicinal cannabis to be included on PBS The former national president of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, George Tambassis, says his role on the board of …
Allegedly unlawfully manufactured semaglutide seized
Authorities have swooped on a Melbourne pharmacy this week, seizing semaglutide, peptides and human growth hormones – and they’ve warned pharmacists to be careful about compounding The Therapeutic Goods Administration, …
8CPA – no deal done… yet
Negotiations for the Eighth Community Pharmacy Agreement (8CPA) are set to continue as the Guild and government inch closer to an acceptable deal Pharmacy owners are cautiously optimistic that the …
CAPS means business ahead of by-election
CAPS seeks to ramp up pressure on Labor after 8CPA implementation date was missed The Dunkley by-election will provide pharmacists with an opportunity to voice their frustration at the government’s …
If medicines are not special, are magazines?
Newsagents’ “cosy systems of exclusivity” watched by pharmacy as OTC medications head to supermarkets…and should drugs be distributed only through doctors? Welcome to April 1979… Our April 1979 issue opens …
World news wrapup: 1 March 2024
US cyber attack impacts pharmacies; NZ dispensing error saw loratadine laced with haloperidol; UK pharmacists burning out New Zealand: The Health and Disability Commissioner has found a pharmacy breached the …
TWC winner ‘excited for what the future holds’
Therese Lambert has been named the winner of this year’s Rhonda White Leadership Award Lambert was honoured during the TerryWhite Chemmart ELEVATE conference, which saw nearly 800 delegates from around …
Opioid access: more action needed, say hospital pharmacists
Patients should not have to pay for unsubsidised morphine products brought in to manage the current shortage, says the SHPA Yesterday (28 February 2023), the AJP reported that the Therapeutic …