The new Community Pharmacy Agreement will make it easier for Australia’s pharmacists to spend time providing expert health advice to customers rather than focusing on retail revenues.
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Pharmacists are well positioned to provide communities with a lifesaving drug.
Pharmacies are essential services and will remain open, but some people will still have problems accessing medicines. Here’s what you can do.
There are cost-effective solutions to the problem of sub-standard drugs in Nigeria and other low-income countries.
The Pharmacy Guild represents the owners of community pharmacies around the country. Their reach into every community and large political donations make them more powerful than other lobby groups.
Pharmacies are paid a set amount to dispense most medicines, so the more they dispense, the greater their income. But there’s a better way to pay pharmacists and improve health care at the same time.
You no longer have to go to your GP to get your flu shot or catch up on vaccinations you missed earlier in life or have waning immunity to. But they’re unlikely to be free.
If Australia follows international trends and allows supermarkets to open pharmacies, what are the effects on neighbouring pharmacies? And when does running a business mean health care suffers?
Some Canadians go without heat and food to buy their medications. Others simply don’t take them because they can’t afford to. This is why we need a national pharmacare plan.
The president should use his penchant for shaking up the status quo to tackle the genuine crisis in health care.
The medication landscape is complicated and error-riddled, with very few care providers knowing all the drugs you are taking. Here’s how pharmacists could be the solution.
A review into pharmacy practices last year recommended pharmacies stop selling ineffective remedies such as homeopathy. The government didn’t support the recommendation.
A new productivity report has suggested automated dispensing machines could replace pharmacists.
Drug companies funded more than 116,000 educational events for doctors over four years. Now you can find out exactly which companies footed the bills and how much they paid.
Amazon currently sells pretty much everything, including the kitchen sink, but medications are very different from books and fidget spinners.
A push towards prescribing generic medications rather than their branded equivalents, as flagged in the budget, may have benefits beyond simple cost savings.
A small study has found that pharmacists would consider re-dispensing medications returned from other patients if they were permitted to do so.
Pharmacists are trained to do far more than dispensing medicine, but outdated policies keep them from taking on a greater role in patient care.
The primary care reform debate of the last 15 months got off on the wrong foot. It was framed in terms of cutting government spending, with an overlay that consumers needed to bear the brunt of system…
The Pharmacy Guild has proposed a scheme that would see the Commonwealth government pay pharmacists A$50 to provide one-off health checks. Pharmacists checks would assess patients’ body mass index, blood…
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Associate Professor of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, University of Pittsburgh
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of the School of Pharmacy, University of Sydney
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Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of Pittsburgh
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Palliative Medicine Physician, Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Researcher, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University
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Professor and Director, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Health Psychology, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, University of South Australia
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Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer in Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of South Australia
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Professor emeritus, University of the Pacific
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