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Growth is not about slaying your competitors but about serving your customers
Statistics show that more pharmacies have become insolvent in the past three years than in Australia’s entire pharmaceutical history. Why? Government reforms have transformed the very core of the Australian pharmacy industry. Bank debts have climbed to insurmountable levels. Costs are increasing across the board, from ridiculous rents to high wages. And cannibalising price wars…
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Community Clinical Pharmacists as “Medication Coaches”- lessons from a great coach
I recently read this great piece of research published in the British Medical Journal by Australian Pharmacists. It reviews the literature to identify barriers to optimal prescribing and discusses strategies to overcome these barriers. http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/4/12/e006544.full.pdf+html As a keen sailor in my teenage years and early twenties I was extremely lucky to have as my coach…
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Marketing Focus – Lesson Learnt and Fresh in Our Memories
A certain sense of tension and testiness currently pervades many workplaces and markets. Anxiety levels are up … confidence is down; so too are morale and trust. Mutual respect is being challenged. Relationships are being tested. Team and group cohesion is frayed. Employment and income security is being questioned. Sadly, good, open and two-way communication…
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Orthomolecular Treatment for Adverse Effects of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Vaccine
Editor’s Note: i2P stands for “Safe Vaccination” and does not support the extreme stances of the “anti-vaxers” or the “pro-vaxers”. For this reason we encourage pharmacists to carefully read the comments contained in the news item below, because they are evidence-based and valid. They highlight the unsafe qualities of one vaccine (HPV) containing aluminium as…
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PSA Media Releases – Four Releases this Week
May 8, 2015 Medicines labels help to minimise risk A significant number of medicines have the potential to pose a health and safety risk as a result of unintended exposure when people other than the patient – such as carers, family members or healthcare professionals – handle the medicine. To help protect people from such…
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ASMI Media Release – ASMI welcomes Vic. Prescription Monitoring
ASMI welcomes Victorian Government funding for real-time prescription monitoring system 6 May 2015 – The Australian Self Medication Industry (ASMI) today welcomed the Victorian Government’s commitment of $300,000 for planning and development of a real-time prescription monitoring system to help reduce the inappropriate use of some medicines. Dr Deon Schoombie, ASMI Executive Director, said: “A…
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NPS Media Releases – Antibiotic Resistance
8 MAY 2015 WINTER IS COMING: FIGHT ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE EVERY DAY IN MAY Ahead of the 2015 cold and flu season, NPS MedicineWise has launched an exciting new phase in its five year campaign to fight antibiotic resistance, ‘Winter is coming’, to encourage people to spread knowledge, not infection. Combining social media content every day…
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EDITORIAL for 4 May 2015
Welcome to i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine for the week commencing 4 May 2015. This week our focus is on leadership – or more specifically, the lack of it. We tuned in to some of the major global thought leaders and found that leadership problems did not just reside in Australian pharmacy but it was…
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Why the Business World Feels so Different
The major global management consultancies have, until very recently, been operating in uncharted territory and feeling very uncomfortable, because they were unable to give clients a sense of direction. This was a direct result of having lost their own sense of direction. With the passage of time and the collection of sufficient data, there is…
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Retail Health Clinic Study – Many Positives
In the US, retail health clinics are now a permanent part of the health care landscape with the potential to become a much more powerful enabler of a “culture of health,” according to a recent report by Manatt Health, the health care division of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. This perspective will be of interest to…