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Analgesics appropriate – ASMI
Tuesday | Jun 13 2017PARACETAMOL-IBUPROFEN combination medicines are safe and effective for the short-term relief of acute pain when taken in accordance with the directions on the label, the Australian Self Medication Industry (ASMI) says.
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Queen’s Birthday gongs
Tuesday | Jun 13 2017THE contributions of several leading Australian pharmacists have been highlighted in the annual Queen's Birthday Honours list (PD breaking news yesterday), including former Pharmacy Guild president Kos Sclavos being made a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia.
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Pharmacists lose standing
Friday | Jun 9 2017WHILE health professionals generally have again maintained their position in society as the most highly regarded professions in the latest Roy Morgan Research polls, pharmacists have lost ground to GPs and nurses.
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ACCC re-authorises e-script pact
Friday | Jun 9 2017THE Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has granted interim authorisation to allow continued revenue sharing between electronic prescription providers eRx and IP MDS Pty Ltd (formerly MediSecure Pty Ltd).
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Competency standards push
Friday | Jun 9 2017THE Australian Pharmacy Council (APC) is urging Australia's pharmacists and future pharmacists to explore the national competency standards framework for pharmacists in Australia recently released by the Pharmacy Practitioner Development Committee (PPDC) (PD 01 Jun).
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New GuildCare POTY criteria
Thursday | Jun 8 2017GUILDLINK has announced plans to "go bigger and better" for the 2018 GuildCare Pharmacy of the Year awards, with new judging criteria and finalists to be named from each Australian state and territory.
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Excellence awards now open
Thursday | Jun 8 2017THE Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) has opened nominations for the 2017 PSA Excellence Awards, in the lead-up to the Society's flagship PSA17 conference next month.
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Vaccination ‘game-changer’
Thursday | Jun 8 2017THE rapid national rollout of pharmacist vaccinations over the last two years has fundamentally changed public perceptions about the role of community pharmacy.
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Location impacts health
Wednesday | Jun 7 2017THE second Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation, to be formally launched today in Canberra, highlights significant variations in the provision of common health treatments across the country.
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CW to honour penalty rates
Wednesday | Jun 7 2017CHEMIST Warehouse and My Chemist Group have confirmed they will honour all existing penalty rate payments for current staff and anyone employed before 01 Jul 2017, after the Fair Work Commission's (FWC) controversial review of weekend penalty rates.