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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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Jul 2021
COVID vaccine rollout: chemists brought in to fast track jabs
11 July 2021 - With Australia’s biggest city in lockdown, chemists have been brought in to fast track the Covid-19 vaccine ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Jun 2021
Pharmacies enter COVID-19 vaccine frontline
29 June 2021 - Health officials have approved a nationwide COVID-19 pharmacy vaccination program following outbreaks that have plunged four ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Jun 2021
End ‘vaccine frustration’ and let pharmacies join the rollout: Pharmacy Guild
9 June 2021 - New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia could all soon join Queensland in allowing rural or ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Jun 2021
Queensland pharmacies join rollout, 1 million regional vaccines delivered
7 June 2021 - More rural and remote Queenslanders will be rolling up their sleeves as local pharmacies join the national ...