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AMA calls for two months of medicines to be dispensed from a single script
12 February 2023 - The Federal Government must show leadership and implement the recommendations of the independent PBAC to increase the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Nov 2022
NSW pharmacists to prescribe the pill, antibiotics in health shake-up
13 November 2022 - Pharmacists will be able to prescribe a range of meds and repeat scripts under a NSW government ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Aug 2022
Panicked patients as popular medications get wiped from pharmacy shelves
4 August 2022 - Widely used medications — including one used to treat ADHD — are missing from Australian shelves amid ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Jun 2022
Update to continued dispensing arrangements
30 June 2022 - From 1 July 2022, on-going continued dispensing arrangements have been expanded to include additional medicines groups to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Mar 2022
Government fails to adequately address medicine affordability for working Australians
29 March 2022 - The cost of medicines will continue to go up unchecked as the Federal Government has failed ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Feb 2022
Women in Dobell can’t afford medicine
8 February 2022 - A third of women living in the federal electorate of Dobell struggle to afford prescription medicines, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Feb 2022
Pharmacist substitution of PBS medicines without a prescription during shortages (Serious Scarcity Substitution Instrument) - 8 February 2022
8 February 2022 - From 8 February 2022, abatacept syringe (Orencia) and abatacept auto-injector (Orencia ClickJect) can be interchangeably substituted ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Jan 2022
Pharmacists struggle to meet demand for free COVID test kits amid stock shortage
23 January 2022 - Chemists across the country say they do not have enough rapid antigen tests to start handing ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Dec 2021
Extension to image based prescription special arrangement
22 December 2021 - The Department of Health has extended the ‘image based prescription’ interim measure which allows the supply of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Oct 2021
Tasmania's Pharmacy Guild wants antiviral COVID-19 pills available in all pharmacies
20 October 2021 - Tasmania has a stockpile of two different antiviral pill products which are sitting in the Royal ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Oct 2021
Pharmacists opt out of third shot as doses of vaccine set to expire
14 October 2021 - The rollout of third doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to thousands of immunocompromised people has been ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Sep 2021
Pharmacy Guild plan to halve PBS general patient charge for prescription medicine prices
26 September 2021 - The Pharmacy Guild has declared war on discount chains like Chemist Warehouse. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Jul 2021
More community pharmacies and additional GPs to deliver COVID-19 vaccines
22 July 2021 - Thousands of community pharmacies and additional GPs across Australia will be invited to join the COVID-19 vaccine ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Jul 2021
‘Pharmacies are ready to go’: Chemists in hotspots fast tracked to deliver jabs
16 July 2021 - About 70 pharmacies in Sydney’s COVID-19 hotspots have been fast-tracked to administer AstraZeneca jabs from next ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Jul 2021
Wesfarmers lobs $687 million takeover of Australian Pharmaceutical Industries
12 July 2021 - Wesfarmers has lobbed a $687 million takeover of Priceline owner API. But don’t expect pharmacies to pop ...