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Organisational Styles of Management – Some Charting Views
One of the criticisms that i2P has leveled at pharmacy proprietors/managers and their leadership body, the Pharmacy Guild of Australia is their style of management. It has always been a top down hierarchical style that is slow-moving and now out of date. It concentrates excessive power at the executive end of the organisation, with members…
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PPRx – Are We One Family?
I have often reiterated that sometime in the recent past, pharmacists were a unified bunch, and supported each other no matter what their status or their leadership organisation. In those times leadership mostly occurred through the Pharmacy Guild of Australia (PGA) taking on an all-embracing attitude, with members treating their employed pharmacists with respect and…
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New 9 Strain HPV Vaccine Has Double the Aluminium.
Double the Aluminium (500 mcg) in the New 9 Strain HPV Vaccine Many of us were informed (19 December 2014) by a research fellow in infrastructure modelling, Matthew Berryman, that a new HPV vaccine covering 9 strains of HPV has just been approved by the FDA. However the notification did not include the fact that the…
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PSA Media Release – WA pharmacist-delivered vaccinations allowed
December 17, 2014 PSA welcomes WA decision to allow pharmacist-delivered vaccinations The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia has welcomed the Western Australian Government decision to allow pharmacists to administer influenza vaccine without prescription in accordance with the pharmacist vaccination code. The WA Government announced this week that changes undertaken to the WA Poisons regulations to allow pharmacist-delivered…
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Support for pharmacists throughout the festive season – Call 1300 244 910 to talk it over with a colleague
Not everyone enjoys the festive season. Work pressures in pharmacy over the holiday period can be substantial with the end of the year “safety-net” rush, Boxing Day sales, holiday crowds in tourist areas and access to other health services such as medial practices are often limited. Many pharmacists do not have the opportunity to relax…
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NPS Media Releases – 1. Medicinewise Travellers 2. CM Interactions
BE A MEDICINEWISE TRAVELLER THIS HOLIDAY SEASON: NPS MEDICINEWISE As many Australians prepare to travel both interstate and overseas this holiday season, NPS MedicineWise is urging people to be medicinewise when travelling with their medicines. NPS Medicines Line Manager, Sarah Spagnardi, says that thinking ahead can help you plan a safer holiday and avoid potential problems with your medicines. “Having…
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Primary Health Networks must be local and multidisciplinary
In meetings last week with Ministers Dutton and Nash, the National Rural Health Alliance reiterated the principles which must inform the size, management and functions of the new Primary Health Networks (PHNs) to take over next year from Medicare Locals. Pharmacists must try and engage with these entities, some of which will be Medicare Locals…
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EDITORIAL for Moday December 15, 2014
Welcome to the Information to Pharmacists (i2P) weekly edition for Monday December 15, 2014. As we draw close to the end of the year, we collectively appear to be licking our wounds rather than going out on a high. All portents for 2015 appear to be positive for pharmacists – if you have a plan.…
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2015 – a New Year Breakthrough
We are at the end of another tumultuous year. As I write there is a hostage negotiation under way in the Lindt chocolate cafe in Martin Place in Central Sydney CBD. It’s hard to concentrate and we are certainly living in more violent times. Who knows – this time next year we might be giving…
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Medicines That Matter – Drug Schedules Administered by Pharmacists
It’s taken a long time for pharmacy proprietors and their leadership body to take a good look and this sector of medicines and actually do something with it. But at least it is being reviewed and that has to be a plus. Another sector, with only a handful of scheduled items within it is the…