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Marketing Focus – 1. Australia is on sale 2. Reward for effort 3. Postcode Discriminatory Pricing 4. Aldi under attack
Australia is on Sale. There are signs of it everywhere…….. “EOFY Sale” Significantly, one adjective – “door-buster” – has lapsed into disuse, because of widespread disinterest and apathy. The concept of the financial year is an artificial construct, like the widespread recognition assigned to Sales. The use of seasonal factors, like “winter” or operational considerations such as…
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APLF Communique’ – Path for a sustainable future defined at Pharmacist Workforce Summit
The pharmacy profession’s first ever Australian Pharmacist Workforce Summit, ‘uniting our profession for a sustainable future’ was held on Friday 26th June 2015 at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University. The Australian Pharmacist Liaison Forum (APLF) and Monash University’s Project Pharmacist jointly hosted the event attended by delegates from each of the major pharmacist and pharmacy organisations,…
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Half of All Children Will Be Autistic by 2025, Warns Senior Research Scientist at MIT
Editor’s Note: In our last edition we ran information pertaining to Homeopaths and the NHMRC committee investigating the effectiveness of this modality. A number of inconsistencies and procedures were highlighted as the NHMRC appeared to be manufacturing a report to conform to certain extreme views of some medical groups, rather than a true evidence-based approach…
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More Father’s Day advice – from readers
Several weeks ago I used this column to share lessons I learned from my parents in recognition of Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. My intention was to honor mothers and fathers everywhere for the wisdom they impart to their children. The column apparently struck a chord, because I had a record response from readers about…
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I’ve been thinking about how the work we do today may impact the world we live in tomorrow
This afternoon, I received an e-mail from my friend George Laurer (to my right), the inventor of the UPC bar code—the very same code scanned on the items I purchased this morning at Costco and Trader Joe’s. It arrived on the anniversary (June 26, 1974) of the first bar-coded product being scanned at a point…
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News Roundup for 6 July 2015
ACCC to champion agribusiness supply chain transparency 05 July, 2015 Minister Joyce says the Australian Government is serious about ensuring farmers get a fair deal for their efforts. The Australian Government has acted on concerns raised by farmers about supply chain transparency during the consultation phase of the Agricultural Competitiveness White Paper. Minister for…
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PSA Media Releases – 1. Workplace Bullying 2. Workforce Summit 3. GP’s Support Practice Pharmacists 4. Karalyn Huxhagen wins in Pain Management
July 3 2015 Bullying in the workplace, climate change challenges to health feature in Australian Pharmacist Bullying in the workplace has hit the media in recent months, this time in healthcare settings. In Australian Pharmacist this month, pharmacy ethics columnist, Dr Betty Chaar from the University of Sydney, has responded to real examples of bullying raised in social…
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EDITORIAL for Monday 29 June 2015
Welcome to this weeks’ edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday, 29 June 2015. Well there was certainly a flashpoint over an article written by Mark Coleman and published in our last edition. Titled “Homeopathy – a Political Diversion Rather than a Valid Issue” it attracted a range of “diversionists” and some of…
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Are Your Consumers Customers or Patients?
It seems that as pharmacies become more corporate in nature and larger in total business transacted, the concepts of pharmacy are tested, with the view of providing more financial benefit to the owners, either in the format of paying lowest possible wages to employed pharmacists, illegal removal or manipulation of award requirements (such as meal…
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Provider Numbers are the key to clinical services rollout
A few years ago I read a biography on the life of Joseph Stalin. The story of how Stalin rose to power and then ruled Russia with an unrelenting grasp for thirty years was quite an interesting read. Despite all his paranoia, ordered executions and sending millions to the gulags it is an interesting fact…