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Communications Device and System for Clinical Pharmacists
When you are involved in clinical work in pharmacy, it is necessary to have a portable platform. This would be represented by an iPad or any Android notepad, even a smartphone. If you wanted something that could easily slip into a coat pocket, then the iPad mini is designed just for you, or you could…
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Plant extracts offer hope against diabetes and cancer
Diabetes is the fastest growing metabolic disease in the world. A new study has shown that traditional Aboriginal and Indian plant extracts could be used to manage the disease and may also have potential use in cancer treatment. Researchers from Swinburne University of Technology identified plant species that could potentially be applied in the management…
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An Indemnity Choice
There’s so much happening in the pharmacy space these days. We have our heads down and tails up, hoping that our leaders can re-establish our role in primary health care from the current retail offer. If you have been like me, renewing your indemnity insurance has meant accepting an ”offer to renew”. That puzzled me…
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National Volunteer Week 2015 – thank you to PSS volunteers for 20 years of support
National Volunteer Week, which runs from 11th to 17th May, is an ideal time to acknowledge the work of the pharmacists and retired pharmacists who support their colleagues as volunteers with the Pharmacists’ Support Service (PSS). About 25 pharmacists, professionally trained for this role, work behind the scenes to provide telephone support service to Australian…
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PSA Media Releases – Multi Releases 6CPA & PSA15 Conference
18 May, 2015 Consumers winners as professional services get boost in Community Pharmacy Agreement The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia has welcomed the signing of a letter of intent between the Australian Government and the Pharmacy Guild agreeing on the broad parameters of the Sixth Community Pharmacy Agreement, including doubling of funding for pharmacist-delivered professional services…
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ASMI Media Release – ASMI supports real-time monitoring of OTC codeine containing analgesics
ASMI supports real-time monitoring of OTC codeine containing analgesics 15 May 2015 – The Australian Self Medication Industry (ASMI) today supported calls by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia and the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia for a national real-time monitoring system for over-the-counter (OTC) codeine containing analgesics. Dr Deon Schoombie, ASMI Executive Director, said ASMI’s submission…
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NPS Media Release – 1. Hypertension Day 2. Flu Vaccine Choices
15 MAY 2015 KNOW YOUR NUMBERS THIS WORLD HYPERTENSION DAY, 17 MAY 2015 The theme of this year’s World Hypertension Day on 17 May 2015 is ‘know your numbers’. NPS MedicineWise encourages Australians with high blood pressure to take an active interest in monitoring and managing their condition by getting into the habit of knowing their numbers.…
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EDITORIAL for Monday 11 May, 2015
Welcome to this week’s edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine commencing on Monday 11 May, 2015. Those of us who have been involved with the PBS scheme since its inception can remember the “down and dirty” tactics that were inflicted on pharmacists since its inception, until the commencement of the Community Pharmacy Agreements. These…
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The Global Trend in Working Environments: Co-working & Retail Clinics
I2P has been researching the concept of a “freelance” clinical pharmacist for some years now. As we are normally about 5-10 years projected in our “over-the-horizon” thinking, it is not surprising that the trend has not yet become fully obvious within the pharmacy profession. Pharmacy culture is only just transitioning from a dispensary presentation to…
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®Easy chain – Sartoretto Verna rethinks pharmacy design
Editor’s Note: Australian community pharmacy design is altering to include more compound dispensing, a variety of clinical spaces and less general retailing. Interview rooms will take away wall space and the display shelving, so new innovations are required. Sartoretto Verna has harnessed this trend in a presentation they call the Easy chain display system that…