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Evidence Based Design Will Encourage Patient Outcomes
A pharmacy environment is a complex one of patients, customers, products and services. It is a little understood environment because evidence surrounding its structure and presentation is sparse. All the elements require integration. It’s one thing to spruce up a space aesthetically, but it’s equally important to address the underlying conditions to support the experience…
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Breaking down the meaning of leadership
U.S. President and five-star General Dwight Eisenhower used a simple device to illustrate the art of leadership. Laying an ordinary piece of string on a table, he’d illustrate how you could easily pull it in any direction. “However, try and push it,” he cautioned, “and it won’t go anywhere. It’s just that way when it…
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Making Universal Blood Through Enzymes
Universal blood is an appealing notion because it could be transfused into anyone regardless of blood type. Researchers have been kicking around the idea of using enzymes to create universal blood since the early 1980s, “but a major limitation has always been the efficiency of the enzymes,” says Stephen Withers at the University of British Columbia.…
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The truth about herbal ‘medicines’
Herbal medicines have been defined as “an unknown dose of an ill-defined drug, of unknown effectiveness and unknown safety“. Now under the spotlight by regulators in the US, the UK, Canada and here in Australia, do they work, are they safe and do you even get what you pay for? More than 60% of Australians…
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APC Insights – a newsletter from the Australian Pharmacy Council
A word from our CEO: Welcome to our first edition of APC Insights. This is our new style newsletter that we will be using to bring our news to you on a regular basis. We hope this … Read more> Advanced practice pharmacists – a new path for pharmacy in Australia A pilot program testing…
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PSA Media Releases – Four News Items
May 1, 2015 ACT PSA MIMS Intern of the Year 2014 announced The PSA MIMS Australia ACT Intern of the Year 2014 has been awarded to Brendon Wheatley, a community pharmacist at Dickson Capital Chemist. The prestigious award celebrates the achievements of exceptional interns in developing skills for their professional career, who have been recognised as striving to raise…
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NPS Media Releases – 1. Tropfest Film 2. Choosing Wisely 3. Colleges & Societies Unite
30 April 2015 WINTER IS COMING SO #SAVETHESCRIPT Tropfest-backed short film competition offering up to $10k in prizes to raise awareness about antibiotic resistance. Tropfest, the world’s largest short film festival, has partnered with NPS MedicineWise to launch an industry-first short film competition to raise awareness and help fight antibiotic resistance this cold and flu season. Filmmakers of…
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EDITORIAL for Monday 27 April 2015
Welcome to this week’s edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday 27 April 2015. Again, we are seeing a round of mainstream media releases that could only be termed “vindictive”. i2P reminds its readers that the Abbott government and the Murdoch Press have formed an unholy alliance and that 6CPA negotiations are under…
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The Value Curve Aligns
Given the opportunity to start with a clean slate, a blank sheet of paper and be unencumbered with tradition, what would a new model for pharmacy look like? In the previous article, we looked at (i) The Service Continuum and (ii) competitive advantage theory to create an initial macro path forward. We summarized that a…
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Culture is a Unifying Force – and we need it now with a touch of Terroir
I recently received a copy of a newsletter written by Daniel Hussar, a prominent US pharmacist who publishes as The Pharmacist Activist. In his latest edition he talks about the Joint Commission of Pharmacy Practitioners (JCPP) and its vision statement. We may be concerned here in Australia at the proliferation of pharmacy organisations, but in…