Amcal, DDS franchisees to benefit from CWH ‘know how’
Sigma Healthcare franchisees to gain access to Chemist Warehouse’s IP under proposed merger Plans to create a $8.8 billion healthcare powerhouse through the merger of Sigma Healthcare and Chemist Warehouse …
Group caps the year with awards
Capital Chemist presented its Pharmacy of the Year awards – and this year the star was Capital Chemist Chisholm The group says that the pharmacy of the year is a …
Personalising OTC medicine options for adults with reflux
This 40-minute podcast will use a longitudinal case study to demonstrate how different adult reflux patients require different approaches to therapy at different stages of life, and how expert knowledge …
Chemist Warehouse to get 85.75% in Sigma merger
Company to be valued at $8.8b putting it close to Top 50 of listed Australian companies The “transformational” proposed merger between Chemist Warehouse and Sigma Healthcare will see CWH with …
The top 10: business news
We begin our look back at the key stories of 2023 with a look at the 10 best-read business themed stories of the year ‘Game changer’: Chemist Warehouse moves into …
The year’s weirdest science stories: 2023
It’s been an interesting year in pharmacy, and more widely, in the world of science. Dr Joe Milton of the Australian Science Media Centre presents its 10 weirdest stories of …
The week in review
There was big news in the business world this week, with all eyes on Chemist Warehouse…and Sigma Healthcare Sigma asked for a pause in trading its securities on the ASX …
Credentialed pharmacists come together in Cairns
Credentialed pharmacists and those interested in this growing area of practice have a new opportunity to tackle the issues, writes Sarah Gillespie Following the overwhelming success of the inaugural Pharmaceutical …
‘Obviously, we cannot have attacks on pharmacists.’
A judge has quoted Hamlet in sentencing a man who beat up a pharmacist, causing “substantial and ongoing” harm Kyle Cole Peterson pleaded guilty to a charge of assault occasioning …
Should ‘retail pharmacists’ be on the WA priority occupation list?
Pharmacy union asked to gauge members’ views on the need for retail pharmacists to be included in the Western Australia’s priority occupation list Pharmacists with experience of working in remote …
Whale swallows minnow; the Sigma CWH reverse takeover
“Historic and creative” $8b deal machinations go back at least 18 months. How will it change pharmacy? When Sigma Healthcare’s shares suddenly went into a trading halt this past Wednesday …
PBS clarifies biosimilar warning codes
Warning codes not always a block on biosimilar substitution, Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) says Pharmacists receiving PBS warning reason codes 162 and 163 when substituting a biosimilar for a reference …