Pharmacy Guild
Patient advocacy key to future viability: Panayiaris
Pharmacy needs to make the case that it should remain viable because it delivers equitable community healthcare, Nick Panayiaris, SA Guild president, told the Friendlies’ Conference in Adelaide. Panayiaris sits …
Guild, Continence Foundation create new educational resources
The Guild Pharmacy Academy and Continence Foundation of Australia have developed new educational resources for pharmacy staff providing continence care. The online courses—one for pharmacists and another for pharmacy assistants—utilise …
Pharmacies help reduce unnecessary hospitalisations
A report published in the Medical Journal of Australia today confirms the potential for community pharmacies to make a significant contribution to reducing the cost of unnecessary hospitalisations, says the …
Pharmacy Industry Award in plain language pilot
The Pharmacy Industry Award has been selected by the Fair Work Commission for a pilot project to look at how a modern award can be written in plain language. The …
Finalists named in National Student Business Plan Competition
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s National Student Business Plan Competition has named the three finalist teams for 2015. The competition is an Australia-wide challenge promoting creative entrepreneurship among students preparing …
Primary health care reform needed now: Quilty
There is an ongoing need for genuine primary health care reform, and the Guild is actively playing a part in the national debate about the direction that reform needs to …
Pharmacy of the Year Award 2016 opens
The search for Australia’s best pharmacy is on again as applications for the Pharmacy Guild of Australia Pharmacy of the Year Award 2016 open today. The competition recognises and rewards …
First National Allergy Strategy launches, welcomed by Guild
The first National Allergy Strategy has been released by the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy and Allergy & Anaphylaxis Australia and welcomed by the Pharmacy Guild. Developed over the …
Electronic recording and reporting of controlled drugs needed now: Quilty
It’s time for a national system for the Electronic Recording and Reporting of Controlled Drugs, says Pharmacy Guild executive director David Quilty. Writing in this week’s edition of Guild newsletter …
Reject racism in sport and elsewhere: George Tambassis
Australia needs to reject racism and end the poor treatment of Sydney Swans star Adam Goodes, writes George Tambassis As tens of thousands of young Australians take to sporting fields …
‘We support pharmacists to be pharmacists,’ says AMA
GPs remain concerned about the expanding role of pharmacists and what they might be paid to do in the future, AMA president Associate Professor Brian Owler in an address to …
Choice report exposes ideologically-driven claims against pharmacy: Guild
The Pharmacy Guild has welcomed a report from Choice released today titled ‘A better deal on drugs’ comparing pharmacies and supermarkets on price, range and value in relation to a …