COVID-19
COVID booster reignites pay parity calls
Discrepancies in the remuneration models for COVID-19 vaccines administered by different health professionals needs to be addressed, a pharmacy leader believes. Â With all Australians aged 18 years and older …
Annual COVID boosters likely for years to come: ATAGI
Australian adults will have the option to receive a fifth dose of a COVID-19 vaccine later this month, and it is unlikely to be the last they will be offered. …
World Pharmacy Council makes vaccination pitch
Community pharmacists should be authorised and funded to provide immunisations for all vaccine-preventable diseases, the World Pharmacy Council (WPC) believes. Â In its Vaccination services in community pharmacies report the …
The effect of COVID-19 on pharmacists’ role as immunisers
Researchers take an in-depth look at how the pandemic altered the landscape of pharmacist vaccination for good This article is the first in a series to reflect on the impact …
Guild shifts election cycle
Changes to the Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s constitution were made late last year and will extend the organisation’s election cycle to four years. The amendments lodged with the Fair Work …
Moderna seeks full rego for Spikevax
Moderna’s Spikevax is set to be the first of Australia’s provisionally approved COVID-19 vaccines to undergo an evaluation to transition to full registration. The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) revealed Moderna …
COVID-19 a gift pharmacy must not waste
Pharmacists are being urged not to waste the opportunities created by the COVID-19 pandemic.  Addressing the International Pharmaceutical Federation’s (FIP’s) Enabling life-course immunisation through pharmacy-based vaccination: Regulations and prescribing …
Overworked and emotionally exhausted: pharmacists during Covid
Eight out of ten pharmacists experienced one negative effect during the pandemic… and three-quarters of those in community pharmacy experienced burnout In our latest poll, the AJP wanted to know …
We’re entering a new phase of COVID
We each have to assess and mitigate our own risk. But how? asks Hassan Vally, Deakin University The Australian government’s latest COVID management plan, released yesterday [12.12.22], maps how the …
Aussies too relaxed on COVID: experts
As COVID cases rise again, new research shows a third of Australians are now less likely to test if they have symptoms A leading pharmacist says that as many eligible …
Frewen lauded, thanks pharmacist vaccinators
Lieutenant General Frewen awarded Pharmacy Guild Distinguished Service Medallion The Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s Distinguished Service Medallion has been awarded to Lieutenant General John Frewen in recognition of his achievements as Coordinator General of …
Next steps on bivalents as Omicron strains take hold
Millions of Pfizer’s Omicron bivalent vaccines are on the way as Health Minister announces date they will start being administered More than four million doses of Pfizer’s bivalent vaccine targeting …