What you must see at APP
Part two of our look at the 20 ‘must attend’ sessions at APP2022 Kos Sclavos, APP Chair, continues his countdown of the top 20 must-attend sessions at APP 2022. In …
‘No room for error.’
Pharmacy is inherently stressful and it’s “not uncommon” to see long-term pharmacists deal with burnout, warns PSS The nature of pharmacy means the environment can be “inherently stressful”, said Kay …
World News wrapup: 3 February 2022
“There is no chance I will ever be going to that store again,” says woman who says she has still not been paid back nearly $4k by Chemist Warehouse Porirua, …
Anti-vax doctor has registration cancelled
A former doctor has been disqualified from applying for registration for six years after he faked vaccination exemption forms and Medicare forms The Medical Board of Australia has issued a …
Top of the list
Part one of our look at the 20 ‘must attend’ sessions at APP2022 “With state borders finally opening and lockdowns fading away, the path is clearing for a bumper APP …
RAT program off to rocky start
Close to half of AJP readers are not participating in the concessional RAT program, our poll reveals Last week, the AJP asked whether readers’ pharmacies are taking part in the …
Medicines should be ‘affordable’
“Timely, equitable and reliable” access to medicines a top priority in refreshed medicines policy, but alternative models to community pharmacy dispensing not addressed Pharmacy groups have seen some of their …
‘Created by students, for students.’
NAPSA publishes inaugural issue of the first peer-reviewed pharmacy students’ journal in the world A scoping review conducted by fourth-year pharmacy students Vasilios Sotiropoulos and Matthew Perry in 2018 found …
RAT prices: ACCC on the move
Complaints about pharmacies continue, but smaller stores are outstripping them on RAT price complaints, as the ACCC investigates reports Governments redirected the tests The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has …
‘Almost no independent clinical reasoning on the part of any pharmacists.’
Two pharmacists have had their registration cancelled after failing to notice or intervene in widespread inappropriate dispensing at their store The pair were the co-owners of a southern Sydney pharmacy, …
Student interest in pharmacy waning, warns SHPA
Waiving HECS fees for regional, rural and remote pharmacy students and boosting accelerated graduate-entry pharmacy courses are among the ideas raised by SHPA The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia …
Pharmacies getting ‘strong supplies’
While it’s still patchy, the rapid antigen test supply situation is looking up for pharmacies, Greg Hunt says Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has flagged what he says is a …