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EDITORIAL for Monday 4 April 2016
Welcome to this edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) dated 4 April 2016. In his edition we focus on the road ahead for community pharmacy, and by extension, all other pharmacists. I can come to no other conclusion that Stephen King, chair of the Review Committee into Location Rules and Ownership Rules is there to…
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Fast Food Leading the way – Annihilate Dispensing or Enhance it?
The fast food industry is rapidly moving to replace employees with robots to eliminate payroll, health benefits and human unreliability. It will prove to be a template for pharmacy evolution and it’s under way right now. Also, it’s very likely that, within your professional lifetime, you’re going to see a huge revolution in robotics. It…
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VAXXED – From Cover-Up to Catastrophe
The writers at i2P have always had knowledge of the links between Big Pharma, Big Agriculture, Big Tobacco and mainstream media. Big Pharma has major investments in mainstream media and entertainment enterprises. It also includes Hollywood and its actors, plus the music industry and sporting organisations. That Big Pharma can practice its character assassination through its…
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Coercion Starts at the Top
We are losing our democracy at a very fast rate. It’s very obvious that we do not have a government “of the people, by the people, for the people”. It is rule by coercion and corruption with mainly US corporate giants, pulling the strings. And Australia is about to give up its heritage to corporate…
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Selling is not all about the product
Over my decades in business, I’ve noticed a baffling trend: “sales” has become a dirty word. I’m on a life-long campaign to change that. In fact, many companies no longer call sales people sales people. They have account executives or account specialists, business developers, client advisers, relationship consultants, territory managers and numerous other monikers. I…
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What are you Competing on?
The profession is going backwards. Seth Godin has obviously attended APP16…..here’s his latest and it’s so timely as many pharmacists try and emulate the yellow box method. What are you competing on? It’s pretty easy to figure out what you’re competing for—attention, a new gig, a promotion, a sale… But what is your edge? In…
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I’ve been thinking about effective (and defective) e-mails
This morning I reread a helpful blog from Well Said’s CEO, Darlene Price. Her subject line, “STAND OUT IN THE INBOX: Writing Emails That Get Results,” delivered on its promise, which is nothing new for Darlene. The first of five best practices suggested by the communication coach: “Make the subject line clear, specific, and actionable.”…
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PSA Media Releases – Health Care Homes – Primary Care Program 2. Nominate for Excellence Awards
Pharmacists integral to ‘Health Care Homes’ primary care program 31 March 2016 A Federal Government primary care program involving a team approach to patients with chronic health conditions should include a central role for pharmacists, according to the peak organisation for pharmacists, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA). The Government’s new ‘Health Care Homes’ trial…
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ASMI Media Release – ASMI Congratulates Tim Roper
ASMI congratulates Tim Roper 31 March 2016 The Australian Self Medication Industry (ASMI) congratulated and thanked Tim Roper, Executive Director, New Zealand Self Medication Industry (NZSMI), for his exceptional contribution to the consumer healthcare products industry. Tim recently announced his retirement, which will commence at the beginning of May. ASMI Chief Executive Officer, Deon Schoombie,…
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NPS Media Releases – Caution! – Diagnosis Creep
1 APRIL 2016 CAUTION! DIAGNOSIS CREEP An editorial in the latest edition of Australian Prescriber suggests that some guidelines prepared by expert panels are broadening definitions of disease. This means more and more healthy people are being labelled as ‘sick’. In the article published online today, Dr Ray Moynihan, senior research fellow at Bond University…