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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 06 Nov 2021
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme continued dispensing arrangements
5 November 2021 - The Australian Government has extended the Continued Dispensing emergency arrangements until 30 June 2022, when they ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Oct 2021
PBS arrangements for tocilizumab shortage – 1 November 2021
29 October 2021 - In response to the shortages of multiple presentations of tocilizumab (Actemra) products, the PBAC has recommended temporary ...
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 18 Oct 2021
Australia secures additional COVID-19 treatments
17 October 2021 - The Australian Government has secured access to two additional COVID-19 treatments to support the National Plan to ...
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 06 Sep 2021
Four million Pfizer doses arrive to super-charge vaccine roll out
6 September 2021 - Four million extra Pfizer-BioNTech (Pfizer) vaccine doses will begin arriving in Australia in days following a historic ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Aug 2021
Australia secures one million Pfizer doses from Poland, with more than half destined for Sydney
15 August 2021 - Poland has come to Australia’s rescue with an extra one million Pfizer doses after the government went ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Aug 2021
PBS arrangements for tocilizumab shortage
13 August 2021 - The sponsor of tocilizumab (Actemra) Roche has notified the TGA of shortages of multiple presentations of tocilizumab ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Aug 2021
Drug shortages putting patients at risk
12 August 2021 - Pharmacists are reporting critical shortages in heart and stroke medications, mental health drugs and HRT therapies ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Jul 2021
Greater Sydney residents 'vaccine shopping' 70 km from postcode
23 July 2021 - Residents from Greater Sydney are travelling up to 70 kilometres from their homes to receive a COVID ...
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 08 Jul 2021
COVID-19: flood of Pfizer doses finally here
8 July 2021 - Australia has clinched a potentially game-changing deal to triple its access to Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines to one ...