27.01.2010
GPs oppose nurses in ACT pharmacies
The peak GP organisation in Australia has joined the Pharmacy Guild in questioning the establishment of in-pharmacy nurse practitioners recently sanctioned in the ACT.//The territory`s government last week approved five Revive Clinic nurse... |
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28.10.2009
GSK and Mirixa rewarding pharmacists for trial referrals
GlaxoSmithKline and Mirixa Australia have partnered in the development of a new program that offers pharmacists a fee for a successful patient referral.The Clinical Trial Patient Referral Program, scheduled to run through Mirixa Australia network... |
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14.03.2010
Guild promises a new roadmap for pharmacy
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia will soon release a strategic plan for the future development of professional services.Outlining the plan at the APP conference, Guild president Kos Sclavos said it was important to explain the broad strategy to the... |
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02.11.2010
Guild questions Pharmacist Coalition
The new Pharmacist Coalition for Health Reform could be a divisive instrument for the profession, according to the Pharmacy Guild of Australia.Guild president Kos Sclavos said the body had rejected invitations from the new coalitions, led by... |
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10.05.2010
Guild sees no need to subsidise hospital pharmacies
Pharmacy Guild of Australia president Kos Sclavos has rejected criticism that hospital pharmacies were left out of the Fifth Community Pharmacy Agreement. Pharmacists’ Division of the Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and... |
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19.08.2010
Guild speaks out on Medicines Line
Healthdirect Australia must employ pharmacists on NPS Medicines Line and develop protocols to refer callers to community pharmacy if it wants to appease the profession’s anger, the Pharmacy Guild has said. Speaking to Pharmacy eNews, Guild... |
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30.11.2010
Guild welcomes pharmacy-based telehealth
Plans to make pharmacies in rural and remote parts of Australia hubs for telehealth are being supported by Pharmacy Guild of Australia.Speaking to Pharmacy eNews after the release of a Government discussion paper, which said pharmacies, could be... |
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15.11.2009
Health illiteracy `common`
Many Australians are likely to have limited health literacy, according to the results of a new survey. //The survey of 2824 South Australians aged 15 years and over, published in the Medical Journal of Australia today, found that 24 per cent of... |
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28.06.2010
Healthcare Identifier Act passed
On a busy final day to the parliamentary term the Senate passed legislation that will enable the introduction of individual health identifers. All patients will get individual healthcare identifiers (IHIs) under the Healthcare Identifiers... |
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22.10.2010
Hospital pharmacy jobs under threat
Plans to reduce payments for medicines supplied to private hospitals under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) could see pharmacists lose their jobs.Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA) chief executive Yvonne Allinson told... |
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