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Dispense calculator out
Wednesday | May 24 2023INTELLIPHARM has launched its Flexible Dispense Calculator and Reporting tool, now available on its StoreIQ software platform, to support community pharmacies in navigating the change to operations associated with the Federal Government's recent 60-day dispensing measure.
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Pharmacy key to UK vision
Wednesday | May 24 2023BRITAIN'S pharmacists would play an enhanced role in a reformed primary care system for the country, under a new major health policy platform unveiled by the UK's opposition Labour party.
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Be ready for the next one
Wednesday | May 24 2023THE head of the World Health Organization urged countries this week to carry out reforms needed to prepare for the next pandemic, hailing their "historic" decision to accept a major budget hike at the UN agency's annual assembly.
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Intimate data apps need monitoring
Wednesday | May 24 2023MENSTRUATION monitoring apps are among the latest innovations in 'FemTech', but Flinders University law experts Prof Tania Leiman and Lydia Chia explain that the legal implications of who can access this highly personal data from ovulation apps and how can it be used are not clearly understood.
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Brace for demand surge
Tuesday | May 23 2023THE National Pharmaceutical Services Association (NPSA) stated recently that it is bracing for medicine demand surges when 60-day dispensing is introduced and is calling for "an industry-wide consultation process to begin immediately to properly consider all aspects of the new policy and manage medicine access".
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‘Topping out’ CSL facility
Tuesday | May 23 2023CSL Seqirus has today announced that construction of its new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Australia has reached its highest point, known as 'topping out'.
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SANE gets a formal tick
Tuesday | May 23 2023SANE has become the first organisation in Australia to have its digital mental health services formally accredited for safety, efficacy and security by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.
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Kids under-vaccinated
Tuesday | May 23 2023WITH just under two weeks until winter is officially here, parents are being urged to get their kids vaccinated against influenza, as new figures show only one in 10 kids have had the jab.
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President Luke Kelly to lead PSA NSW
Monday | May 22 2023LUKE Kelly (pictured) has been elected as President of the New South Wales Branch of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia.
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Back to the lab they go
Monday | May 22 2023OVERSEAS, more pharmacists are returning to their laboratories and offering an additional service in their pharmacies that is often overlooked: the preparation of "galenic formulations", ekathimerini.com reported last week.
