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NPS Media Release – Healthcare Variation Atlas
26 NOVEMBER 2015 ATLAS SHINES A LIGHT ON HEALTHCARE VARIATION NPS MedicineWise welcomes the release today of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care’s Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation. Chief Executive Dr Lynn Weekes says that the atlas is key to helping build understanding of variations in clinical practice and identifying opportunities to improve quality…
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Australian Pharmacy Council (National & NSW Releases)
19 November 2015 Australian Pharmacy Council reveals Australia’s first Advanced Practice Pharmacists The Australian Pharmacy Council congratulates all pharmacists who participated in the Credentialing of advanced practice pharmacists pilot program. Today we reveal the full list of the 28 pharmacists credentialed as Australia’s first Advanced Practice Pharmacists (Adv. Prac. Pharm.). Throughout 2015, the Australian Pharmacy…
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PSA Media Releases – Eight Current Releases
November 21, 2015 PSA Victorian Pharmacist of the Year Ms Fiona Robertson, a community pharmacist at Swan Hill was presented with the Victorian Pharmacist Medal at the Victorian Pharmacists Dinner held on Friday evening, 20 November 2015. Ms Robertson works full time at the Marraboor Pharmacy where she has been a partner since 1997. A graduate…
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ASMI Media Releases – 1. Expert Panel Report 2. Codeine Decision Deferred 3. UK Self Care Week 4. Switch Environment & S3 Advertising
ASMI welcomes Expert Panel Report 20 November 2015 – The Australian Self Medication Industry (ASMI) today welcomed the Stage Two Expert Panel report on the regulatory framework for medicines and medical devices. ASMI Chief Executive Officer, Deon Schoombie, said: “ASMI supports the majority of the Expert Panel’s recommendations on the regulation of complementary medicines and…
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NPS Media Releases – Seven Recent Media Releases
20 NOVEMBER 2015 INTRODUCTION TO ANTIMICROBIAL PRESCRIBING: NEW HEALTH PROFESSIONAL COURSE Coinciding with Antibiotic Awareness Week and complementing this year’s theme ‘Antibiotics: Handle with care’ is the release of Introduction to antimicrobial prescribing, a new online learning course for health professionals and students. The course focuses on and provides an opportunity to reinforce knowledge of appropriate antimicrobial…
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PSA Media Releases – 1. Project Stop 2. PBS Changes – Prepare Consumers 3. Pharmacist Awarded Life Membership
November 4, 2015 ProjectSTOP – Ten years nonSTOP Threats to reschedule pseudoephedrine products, the growing menace of methamphetamine use and the development of sophisticated tracking technology combined 10 years ago this month to see the introduction of ProjectSTOP – the pharmacy profession’s tool to track sales of medicines containing pseudoephedrine. The cover story for the…
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NPS Media Release – Osteoporosis: Reducing Projected Health Burden
5 NOVEMBER 2015 OSTEOPOROSIS: REDUCING THE PROJECTED HEALTH BURDEN Despite an ageing population, prescriptions for osteoporosis medicines in Australia have remained stable. NPS MedicineWise has launched a new learning program and health professional resources on osteoporosis to assist in identification of patients at increased risk of osteoporosis, choosing and initiating therapy in patients particularly following minimal…
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PSA Media Releases – 1. Awards for Australian Pharmacist Journal 2. Pharmacy Practitioner Development
28 October 2015 Australian Pharmacist wins award trifecta Australian Pharmacist, the official monthly journal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, today won its third national award in a week when journalist Peter Waterman won the Bupa National Press Club Health Journalism Award in the Documentary Category. Last week in Sydney Australian Pharmacist editor and journalist…
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NPS Media Releases – Choosing Wisely on ABC Catalyst
27 OCTOBER 2015 CHOOSING WISELY AUSTRALIA TO FEATURE ON CATALYST’S “TOO MUCH MEDICINE” Choosing Wisely Australia® will feature in tonight’s episode of ABC’s Catalyst program, in a special report by Dr Maryanne Demasi called “Too Much Medicine”. The investigation will ask “Could excessive medical interventions be causing more harm than good?”. Dr Robyn Lindner…
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PSA Media Releases – Tasmanian Pharmacist Honoured
17 October 2015 Exceptional Tasmanian pharmacists honoured Visionary pharmacist, George Taylor, has been announced as the winner of the Tasmanian Pharmacy Lifetime Achievement Award, while Elizabeth Jordan, from the Pharmacy Department at the Royal Hobart Hospital, was named the Tasmanian Pharmacist of the Year. The awards were presented at the Tasmanian Pharmacist Dinner on Friday…