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 ...

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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 ...

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PHARMAC ensuring supply of prednisolone to treat children with respiratory conditions

19 July 2021 - PHARMAC is working hard to ensure on-going supply of an important medicine used to treat respiratory conditions ...

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‘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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Australia’s Pfizer doses are coming from Europe as US limits supply

8 July 2021 - Australia is relying on a boost in supplies from the European Union as soon as next ...

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Nurse prescribers now able to initiate Special Authority medicines

30 June 2021 - Joint media release with the Ministry of Health ...

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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 ...

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Proposal for the supply of primidone and gabapentin

22 June 2021 - PHARMAC is seeking additional feedback on a proposal to change the funded brands of primidone tablets ...

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Pharmacy Guild asks for right to give jab

6 June 2021 - Pharmacists say the COVID-19 immunisation program could be accelerated by three months if they could administer ...

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Calls to fast track Pfizer for Victoria amid ‘phenomenal demand’ for vaccine

3 June 2021 - The Australian Medical Association is pushing for COVID-19 vaccines to be fast-tracked into general practices amid ...

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More GPs to join the COVID-19 vaccine rollout

27 May 2021 - The role of general practices in the COVID-19 vaccine rollout is set to expand, with up to ...

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130,000 additional vaccines for Victoria

26 May 2021 - The Australian Government is releasing an additional 130,000 vaccines to support Victoria to accelerate vaccinations in the ...

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