UTIs
Docs link pharmacists to trimethoprim shortage
Pharmacists have urged doctors to “put aside turf wars,” following claims UTI prescribing programs risk lives “When a patient with symptoms of a suspected UTI walks into a pharmacy they …
The week in review
As pharmacies along the Murray busily prepare for a flooding event, many pharmacies and pharmacists were honoured this week with several groups announcing their awards A group of pharmacists and …
‘I am really not interested in a turf war.’
South Australia is calling for submissions to its inquiry into urinary tract infections – and whether the state could allow a Queensland-style pharmacy service South Australia’s Select Committee on Access …
Should pharmacists be able to prescribe common medicines like antibiotics for UTIs?
We asked five experts, write Fron Jackson-Webb and Wes Mountain from The Conversation Victoria is the latest state to move towards pharmacist prescribing, with Premier Daniel Andrews promising a trial …
We’re ready to extend services right now: Tas Guild
Pharmacy stakeholders react to the news that Tasmanian premier Jeremy Rockliff has asked the Department of Health to immediately look at extending pharmacists’ role Some potential changes could take place …
Pharmacists ‘saved my bacon,’ writes prominent doc
One leading doctor writes that politicians won’t admit liability for any “train wreck” due to pharmacist prescribing… while another pens a piece fully supporting expanded pharmacist scope The debate over …
All parties urged to support pharmacist scope trials
The GP shortage doesn’t justify extending the powers of pharmacists, says a leading doctor as the RACGP attacks Victoria’s announcement on scope of practice The Royal Australian College of General …
Docs claim ‘perfect nightmare’ as more states eye pharmacist scope
More states and territories are considering changes to pharmacists’ scope of practice, as doctors continue to react with fury Following the recent announcement (13 November 2022) that NSW would implement …
The week in review
Outrage from doctors escalated a notch this week, as another state decided to implement pharmacist scope of practice trials Making news this week was the announcement by NSW premier Dominic …
We’re fed up with ‘disgraceful lies,’ says Guild
NSW Health Minister tells GPs to “just relax” and get used to the pharmacy pilots, while Queensland doctors claim disaster in that state The furore over pharmacist prescribing and working …
New scope trial a script for ‘the collapse of general practice’
Doctors are up in arms about the “madness” of newly announced NSW pharmacy scope of practice and UTI trials, as the Premier says the state can’t wait for GPs to …
‘Feeble attempt to degrade pharmacists’ slammed as lies
The AMA has “deliberately” distorted the aim of an event designed to highlight medicines safety, says the Pharmacy Guild Earlier during Medicines Safety Week (7-13 November 2022), the Pharmaceutical Society’s …