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PGA Media Release – Consumers to benefit from 6CPA
Consumers to benefit from 6CPA by Executive Director, David Quilty | Jun 10, 2015 The Guild is watching closely the progress of the National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Bill 2015 prior to the winter recess of Parliament. This legislation faces an extremely tight timetable in a busy parliamentary program, but it is extremely important that…
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EDITORIAL for Monday 8 June 2015
Welcome to this weeks’ edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday 8 June 2015. This week we continue to look at marketing approaches and competition that will be disruptive to all of pharmacy unless pharmacy leaders step forward and repair the holes in the fabric of pharmacy. These are not small holes…they are…
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Walmart Is Rolling out a Primary Health Care “whole of store” Concept
It’s not just pharmacy expansion that US retail giant Walmart is changing the face of, but the entire scope of primary health care. This brings them into direct conflict with medical centres and given the massive resources and scale of operations, they are in a position to alter the primary health care market significantly and…
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Pharmacy Needs Education & Training – Who will fill this need?
I recently read an article on leadership in the Harvard Business Review where a distinction was made between training and education and a view that educational establishments collectively over-invest in education and under-invest in training. Typically, higher education prizes knowledge over skills. This produces knowledgeable leaders and managers while training and skills go to those…
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Marketing Focus: 1. Dunning Kruger Effect 2. Modern Retailing 3. A Sustainable World
That explains a lot! Australian Labor Party (ALP) political heavy-weights Bill Shorten, Tanya Plibersek, and Penny Wong appear to have at least one thing in common. They each exhibit the characteristics of the Dunning-Kruger Effect. It is not an affliction that is limited to politicians and politics. Some business owners and marketers (along with their entities,…
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Biased Reporting on the ABC Breakfast Program
To the ABC Breakfast Presenters: Virginia Trioli and Michael Rowland On 29 May 2015 you interviewed the popular cartoonist Michael Leunig about his cartoons advocating freedom of speech and informed consent in vaccination. You dismissed the right of individuals to choose how many vaccines they use by claiming that the ‘science is proven’ and that anti-vaccination…
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Do You Have Disaster Recovery Plan For Your Business?
Most business owners are optimists! That is why they went into business in the first place. However, being optimists, many business owners don’t consider the risks that can threaten the very existence of their business, and as such, their own and their employees’ financial well being. The purpose of this blog post is to get…
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“I never thought I would need to call PSS…..”
No-one plans to need to seek support, sometimes things just don’t go the way we planned. When Australian pharmacists, pharmacy interns or students need help the volunteers from the Pharmacists’ Support Service (PSS) are there on the other end of the phone. Just call 1300 244 910 any day of the year between 8.00am and…
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PSA Media Releases – 1. Bruce Elliot & Primary Health 2. PSA Excellence Awards Nominations 3. Antibiotic National Strategy
4 June 2015 Qld Branch President of PSA, Bruce Elliot, appointed to Primary Health Care Advisory Group Pharmaceutical Society of Australia Queensland Branch President and community pharmacist owner from Yeppoon in Queensland, Bruce Elliot, has been appointed to the newly formed Primary Health Care Advisory Group which is part of a range of measures introduced…
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ASMI Media Releases – New Membership Fee Structure
ASMI membership more accessible for SME’s with new fee structure for associate members 29 May 2015 – The Australian Self Medication Industry (ASMI) today announced a new membership fee structure for associate members to make ASMI membership more affordable for small businesses and individual consultants. Filomena Maiese, ASMI Marketing and Business Development Director, said: “Associate…