Headlines
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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.
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Sunday penalty transition
Tuesday | Jun 6 2017THE new arrangements for the Pharmacy Industry Award for employees' Sunday remuneration involve a multi-year transition phase during which the penalty rates will progress from 200% on Sundays down to 150%.
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Monash-J&J partnership
Monday | Jun 5 2017MONASH University has signed a major multi-year research and commercialisation deal with J&J offshoot Janssen Biotech to research the early detection and prevention of rheumatoid arthritis.
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New PBAC appointments
Friday | Jun 2 2017HEALTH Minister Greg Hunt yesterday announced nine appointments to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, in the process increasing the total PBAC membership to 19.
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SHPA specialties now open
Friday | Jun 2 2017THE Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia has opened its new model for Specialty Practice (PD 11 May) for enrolment, with 26 streams to choose from.
