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15 Reasons to Date a Pharmacist
Trawling the Internet recently we came across the global dating site eHarmony promoting pharmacists as great life partners. Intrigued as to whether they were “fair-dinkum” we visited the site to see what they were saying and genuinely surprised when we realised that they were not being frivolous. As we discussed the implications of this material…
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Patient Engagement Involves a Knowledge Exchange
Knowledge exchange occurs when a clinical pharmacist uses best evidence to inform a patient on which direction to take to create a good health care outcome. Knowledge exchange is about sharing knowledge freely to make a difference in health outcomes for patients. During the knowledge exchange the pharmacist uses mentoring processes to act firstly as…
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Signs Future Clinical Trial Data Will be Transparent
In December of 2012, the BMJ announced a new policy regarding the sharing of data from clinical trials that included that BMJ would not publish material for trials on drugs and medical devices unless the authors committed to making the relevant anonymised patient level data available on reasonable request. This was to apply to any…
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Failure isn’t fatal
In 1860 a thirty-eight-year old man was working as a handyman for his father, a leather merchant. He kept books, drove wagons and handled hides for about $66 a month. Prior to this menial job the man had failed as a soldier, a farmer and a real estate agent. Most of the people who knew…
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PSA Media Releases – 1. Immunisation Guidelines 2. Feedback on Competency Standards
January 21, 2015 PSA releases revised immunisation guidelines The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia has released its revised immunisation guidelines to reflect the growing movement among State and Territory Governments to allow pharmacist-delivered vaccinations. The revised guidelines focus on the pharmacist being the immuniser and they promote best practice in the delivery of high-quality immunisation services in…
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ASMI Media Releases – 1. Committee of Management 2.Fish Oil products
ASMI announces its Committee of Management 16 January 2015 – The Australian Self Medication Industry (ASMI) today announced its Committee of Management for 2015. ASMI Executive Director, Dr Deon Schoombie, welcomed members to the Committee of Management. “We have a very talented and strong Committee of Management who will be driving an ambitious advocacy program…
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NPS Media Releases – New Medicinewise Honorary Members
NEW NPS MEDICINEWISE HONORARY MEMBERS 20 January, 2015 Three new honorary members of NPS MedicineWise have been appointed following an extensive call for nominations. Ms Mary Hemming, Professor Gillian Shenfield AM and Associate Professor Andrea Mant were invited by the NPS MedicineWise Board to become honorary members of NPS MedicineWise. “The three new honorary members…
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EDITORIAL for Monday 19 January 2015
Welcome to the new weekly i2P E-Magazine edition for Monday 19 January 2015. While I believe that 2015 will be a better year for pharmacy, I would only qualify the statement to include the words “for those who pull their finger out”. A crude but effective message! How else do you think things will happen…
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Patient Engagement is Patient Management and Customer Conversion
How often do you openly engage with a patient, particularly when you have a busy dispensing schedule under way and the order in your day is rapidly becoming “disorder”. Eyes averted, you bend your head to avoid eye contact, because that would extend patient engagement, and with that, your day suddenly just deteriorated a shade…
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Rite Aid has the Rite Pharmacy Model for Australia.
It’s nice to have your own research confirmed elsewhere in the world of pharmacy. i2P have long been talking about a “whole of pharmacy” approach to delivering clinical services. Every single aspect of a community pharmacy must dovetail, one with the other so that there is a sustainable effect for the whole. Core Business =…