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Sep 15, 2023 | 
ajp.com.au | Nicholas O’Donoghue |Laverne Baulch |Michael Ortiz |Andrew Crowley
Pharmacists’ pay, questions over prescribers' understanding of the requirements for patients to be eligible for 60-day dispensing, and pharmacists rise up ethics ranks Salaries are on the rise for community pharmacists, the annual Raven’s Recruitment Salary and Market Report reveals, with hospital pharmacists in Epic Pharmacy Services’ pharmacies in Queensland also set to see theirThis content is restricted to registered users only.
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Sep 15, 2023 | 
ajp.com.au | Chris Brooker |Laverne Baulch |Michael Ortiz |Andrew Crowley
The continuing digitisation of most aspects of pharmacy is leading to exponential growth in the risk of cyber attacks and data breaches. What can pharmacies do? Chris Brooker investigates While the health system, indeed society in general, hurtles to an ever-more digitised future, this raises important questions about the security of data and information. ThisThis content is restricted to registered users only.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
ajp.com.au | Megan Haggan |Rohan A Elliott |Michael Ortiz |Bart Pharm
Symbion and Guild Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pharmacy student scholarship recipients announced Three students from across the country have been named as the inaugural winners of the Symbion and Pharmacy Guild Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pharmacy student scholarship initiative. The initiative flows from the Guild’s and Symbion’s reconciliation initiatives, which are being implementedThis content is restricted to registered users only.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
ajp.com.au | Rohan A Elliott |Michael Ortiz |Bart Pharm |Laverne Baulch
TerryWhite Chemmart and Sanofi partner with the RUM Project to promote safe responsible medication disposal TerryWhite Chemmart has joined with Sanofi to raise awareness of the Return of Unwanted Medicines (RUM) program nationally. The initiative has already disposed of 12.5 million kilograms of medicinal waste over the past 22 years, and aims to reduce theThis content is restricted to registered users only.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
ajp.com.au | Nicholas O’Donoghue |Rohan A Elliott |Michael Ortiz |Bart Pharm
Epic Pharmacy Services wins Fair Work Commission (FWC) approval for enterprise agreement Employees of Epic Pharmacy Services in Queensland are set to come under a new pay deal this week. The FWC approved the Icon Group Pharmacy Enterprise Agreement – Queensland 2023, late last week, after the Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and ManagersThis content is restricted to registered users only.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
ajp.com.au | Nicholas O’Donoghue |Rohan A Elliott |Michael Ortiz |Bart Pharm
Government urged to “rethink” and “reverse” its double dispensing policy A petition, signed by 28 individuals, is calling for the federal government to renegotiate its 60-day dispensing policy “before millions of Australians are impacted”. The petition, titled ‘Save our local pharmacies and local health issues’, was presented to the House of Representatives on Monday,This content is restricted to registered users only.
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Sep 1, 2023 | 
ajp.com.au | Megan Haggan |Vincent Chua |Laverne Baulch |Michael Ortiz
A pharmacy kept expired or returned S8s in a box on the dispensary floor, and left S4s in a vaccination room where patients could have accessed them The Victorian Pharmacy Authority has outlined two cases in which pharmacy licensees were reprimanded after failing to comply with their responsibilities. According to the VPA’s latest circular, itThis content is restricted to registered users only. If you have already registered on the AJP website please login below, Or you can Register for free.
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Aug 24, 2023 | 
ajp.com.au | Megan Haggan |David Rowley |Michael Ortiz |Bob Tran
With only days to go before 60-day dispensing is due to come into being, it’s time to put some plans in place to reduce the burden on pharmacists, says one stakeholder Kay Dunkley from the Pharmacists Support Service says that there’s likely to be a mismatch between the reality of double dispensing and patients’ expectationsThis content is restricted to registered users only. If you have already registered on the AJP website please login below, Or you can Register for free.
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Aug 20, 2023 | 
ajp.com.au | Nicholas O’Donoghue |Michael Ortiz |Michael Khoo |Usman Hameed
Frontline healthcare workers feel “betrayed and angry” at the government's decision to push ahead with the “awful” 60-day dispensing policy Moves to implement 60-day dispensing are a betrayal of a sector that opened its doors during the Covid-19 pandemic, a pharmacy assistant says. Speaking at the Community and Pharmacy Support Group rally inThis content is restricted to registered users only. If you have already registered on the AJP website please login below, Or you can Register for free.
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Aug 17, 2023 | 
ajp.com.au | Nicholas O’Donoghue |Vincent Chua |Michael Ortiz |Jenny Chan
Pharmacists are being urged to familiarise themselves with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) list of prohibited substances Opioid medication, tramadol, will be added to the international anti-doping prohibited list when it is officially updated on 1 January 2024. Speaking during a sports pharmacy webinar hosted by the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA), Deborah Greenbaum aThis content is restricted to registered users only.
