Clinical tips: insomnia
Early intervention by a pharmacist could help with insomnia, writes Carlene McMaugh According to the Sleep Health Foundation[1], approximately 10% of people experience insomnia at any one time, while about …
Is pharmacy set for taxi-style deregulation?
Pharmacist Steve Flavel says the profession needs to change its approach to ownership regulations before the landscape changes around it The Parliamentary Inquiry into Community Pharmacy ownership has found several …
The practitioner v the Pharmacy Board
A pharmacist has been ordered to pay costs to the Pharmacy Board after fighting against conditions to undergo alcohol screening A former pharmacy owner has been ordered to pay costs …
A war of words
A community pharmacist has responded to a column that referred to the profession as ‘usurpers’ who only have ‘dispensing degrees’ An outraged community pharmacist has responded to a recently penned …
Patient received up to 57 prescription codeine tablets a day
A pharmacist has been fined $100,000 after her conviction for supplying “massive” quantities of prescription-only codeine to a patient Appearing before the Sunshine Magistrates Court, Huyen Tran pleaded guilty to …
Tasmania moves on measles
Tasmania is set to roll out free measles catch-up vaccinations from GPs next week, before the program is expanded to pharmacies As the state Government highlighted earlier this year, Tasmanians …
How good is Queensland?
The new Queensland pharmacist prescribing trial is seen by many as a way to move Australian pharmacists away from winning the global “wooden spoon” for scope of practice. Megan Haggan …
World news wrapup: 12 September 2019
Former pharmacist pleads guilty to upskirting, bathroom recording charges; pharmacist convicted over circumcising boy without parental consent; Fred’s is no more Portland, Oregon: Former pharmacist Johnny Tuck Chee Chan has …
How rivalries between doctors and pharmacists turned into the ‘turf war’ we see today
Philippa Martyr, University of Western Australia, looks at the history of tension between pharmacists and GPs Would you like to go to your local pharmacy and buy prescription medicines without …
‘Even by Canberra standards, it’s been a long review.’
The controversial dollar discount has not worked as the Government intended, Opposition health spokesperson Chris Bowen has said Addressing the Pharmacy Guild’s Parliamentary Dinner on Tuesday night, Mr Bowen tackled …
PBS dispensing a ‘very effective’ public-private partnership?
Call for Federal, State and Territory governments to work together to promote pharmacists’ role, and ‘nurture’ the 5700-strong community pharmacy network The PBS is a strong system of universal access …
A sneak peek at the 7CPA: it’s all about certainty
The location rules won’t be relaxed, and there’ll be a guarantee on risk share, the Health Minister has told pharmacists Speaking at the Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s Parliamentary Dinner in …