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EDITORIAL for Monday August 31, 2015
Welcome to this weeks’ edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated August 31, 2015. Two important events took place separately on the 24th and 25th of August where the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) and the Australian Pharmacy Council co-sponsored a UK pharmacist (Ravi Sharma) to deliver a talk on his experiences as a…
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Patients First – A Unique Recruitment Process Underpinning Clinical Services Development
i2P has published many articles over time relating to clinical services and the strategy for recruiting patients. The basic concept has been first to recognise that pharmacists, in their consumer mix attract both customers and patients, and that the primary strategy to sustain core business is building a customer base plus having a marketing process…
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A Glimmer of Hope – A Tentative Leadership Initiative
A glimmer of hope has begun to emerge for those clinical pharmacists who would like to work in a GP environment engaging with patients, GP’s and other health professionals in a practice setting. On the 24th August, the PSA organised a forum on “Pharmacists in General Practice” and had as a keynote speaker, UK pharmacist…
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‘Marketing Based Medicine’ steamrolls ethics and science in proposed Victorian vaccine laws.
What some people are terming ‘Marketing Based Medicine’ has just won a huge victory in the state of Victoria, trampling rough shod over medical ethics and good science. The Labor government plans to exclude children from daycare and kindergarten, who are partially or fully unvaccinated, marking a big departure from the more considered approach of…
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Peer- Reviewed…..really?
The Editor-in-Chief of the Lancet has recently declared that “much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with obsessions for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness”. Interesting,…
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Five Reasons Why a Business Fails To Work as a Team
I have just read a great book written by Patrick Lencioni which provides an insight as to why teams fail to achieve great things. The book, ‘The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” has been based around an online assessment in which nearly 15000 participants undertook. The outcome of the assessment was that 68% of teams…
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Vitamin C Infusions – where’s the evidence?
Soon after finding an engorged tick in my hair, during a recent visit to northern New South Wales, I found myself nursing a sore head in the waiting room of a busy ‘Integrative Medicine Clinic’. This was not the first time I had experienced a tick bite, so, as a cancer patient concerned about infection,…
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Vitamins and Surgery: The Real Story A Report from the Front. Well, Maybe a Bit Lower.
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, August 24, 2015 Over 100 million Americans will undergo surgery this year, and I was one of them. Not a big deal: a routine outpatient hernia repair, caused by sure-I-can-lift-that-extremely-heavy-box syndrome, the tendency towards which is almost certainly carried on the Y chromosome. In their personalized how-to-prepare-for-surgery instructions, both the surgeon…
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Australian Pharmacy Council Media Release – APC Colloquium 2015 – the cake is baked!
26 August 2015 APC Colloquium 2015 – the cake is baked! The Australian Pharmacy Council’s 2015 Colloquium, “The Secret Ingredient: can we turn up the heat on experiential education”, was held on Tuesday 25 August in Canberra. The event bought together a variety of delegates from Australia and New Zealand as well as a number…
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PSA Media Releases – 1. New RUM Project Manager 2. Strong Support for Practice Rx
August 28, 2015 PSA welcomes new Project Manager for RUM The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia has welcomed the appointment of Victorian pharmacist Toni Riley as Project Manager of theNational Return and Disposal of Unwanted Medicines Limited (The RUM Project). Ms Riley will take over as the new Project Manager from September 1, 2015, replacing Simon…