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Let’s Apply a “BREXIT” to Australian Vaccination Policy
‘Vaccination: the facts, the experts’ and the Telethon Kids Institute Review of the Telethon Kids Institute Vaccination Forum (Part 1) On the 30 May 2016 the Telethon Kids Institute in Western Australia held a public vaccinationforum titled ‘Vaccination: the facts, the experts’. The experts on this panel included Dr. Christopher Blyth and Dr. Tom Snelling,…
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i2P talks to Health Australia Party (HAP) Senate candidate Kathryn Breakwell
Editor’s Note: Kathryn Breakwell is the Victorian Senate Candidate representing the Health Australia Party for Victoria in the 2016 Federal elections. Kathryn has enjoyed a diverse career, and maintains a strong commitment to animal rights and environmental issues. After completing a Diploma in hospitality and tourism she took on leadership roles within the corporate sector. Subsequent…
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Why is there a need for the Health Australia Party (HAP)?
Many Australians rely every day on natural medicines and/or the services of a natural health practitioner to maintain their health. Yet this significant contribution to the well-being of grateful ordinary Australians goes largely unacknowledged by politicians, the news media and mainstream medicine. Rather instead we see an extraordinary bias against these therapies, to the point…
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Recent News Items
MIMS Leading AAN/INN Harmonisation In its next data release, MIMS Australia will be including, for the first time, INN (International Non-proprietary Names) as well as Australian Approved Names (AANs) as part of its push to support a recent Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) project. In 2015, the TGA announced a 4 year plan to harmonise AANs…
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PSA Media Releases – 1. Dorothy Lucardie receives OAM 2. First Pharmacist Vaccination in Vic 3. Everyone Responsible to Reduce Antibiotic Resistance 4. Joe Demarte re-elected president 5. Early career pharmacist appointed to national board
Dorothy Lucardie receives OAM for adult education service June 20 2016 Highly-respected adult educator and Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) National Training Manager Dorothy Lucardie has been honoured with an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) as part of the Queen’s Birthday celebrations. Ms Lucardie, who’s currently completing a PhD on ‘learning for fun’ at Federation…
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ASMI Media Releases – 1. ASMI Congratulates PSA Leadership 2. ASMI Welcomes Preventive Health Support by Opposition 3. New NZSMI President Congratulated
ASMI congratulates PSA Leadership Team 23 June 2016 The Australian Self Medication Industry (ASMI) today congratulated Joe Demarte on his re-election as National President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA), and Michelle Lynch and Dr Chris Freeman, who were elected as PSA Vice-Presidents. ASMI Chief Executive Officer, Deon Schoombie, said: “Joe Demarte has demonstrated…
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NPS Media Releases – 1. National Antibiotic Use Report 2. Australian Prescriber
16 JUNE 2016 NATIONAL ANTIBIOTIC USE REPORT: MISCONCEPTIONS STILL PREVAIL THIS COLD AND FLU SEASON With new findings launched today showing that antimicrobial use in the community in Australia is higher than in England, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands—and that the number of antimicrobials being prescribed in Australia continues to grow—NPS MedicineWise is again urging…
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EDITORIAL for Monday 13 June 2016
Welcome to the current edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday 13 June 2016. As I write, the Australian national elections draw closer, petitions arrive by email urging me to sign up to a range of urgent problems that seem to flow from a range of poor policy decisions (like the damage to…
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A Patient’s Real Cost – Their time Involvement and a future cause for health system collapse
For some time we have seen media references portraying GP’s as overworked, becoming more stressed and now being underpaid due to the freezing of Medicare rebates. It seems GP’s have now been put on the same treadmill as pharmacists. Welcome to the real world that we pharmacists already inhabit! But what is not identified within…
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Israel, has an ECOsystem not an EGOsystem
Editor’s Note: I have been building a resource on practical examples of collaboration that could act as a model and be absorbed into the pharmacy ecosystem. It was obvious to me some years ago that the process of collaboration is more than welding a clinical pharmacist to a GP’s hip and turning them loose into…