-
Boots Accused of Profiteering Over Professionalism
Boots has been accused of boosting its profits by forcing staff to abuse an NHS scheme intended to help sick patients. Managers at Britain’s biggest pharmacy chain were found to be directing their pharmacists to provide medicine-use reviews (MUR’s) to patients who didn’t need them, in order to claim public money from the NHS. The NHS…
-
The Latest Research on Holistic Health – Are you up to it?
Pharmacists demand the latest evidence- and research-based information on things related to complementary medicines. Some of us were lucky enough to hear an array of international speakers at the recent Research Symposium presented for the 4th consecutive year by BioCeuticals. And each symposium seems to get better! World renowned neurologist David Perlmutter, paediatric gastroenterologist and…
-
The Tide is Turning Against Medical Skeptics, Fraudulent Science and Corrupt Politicians
Editor’s Note: At last the tide is turning against those dupes who have become paid mouthpieces for Big Pharma as their enormous program of duplicity begins to unravel. Researchers like Australia’s Judy Wilyman have documented the facts. But unconventional methods for spreading information for rational and open debate have had to be used because debate…
-
Medical postcard from New York, April 2016
Dear Colleagues, I can report that spring has sprung in New York. After a cold start, April has seen a wonderful transition from winter bareness to a colour-wheel of splendid blossoms, bulbs and canopy greenery. Easter was early this year and so were the cherry blossoms which are at their peak over a week before…
-
Slow and steady wins the day
You might have heard the saying: If you are persistent you will get it. If you are consistent you will keep it. This statement describes professional golfer Jordan Spieth to a tee. Spieth was the defending champion of the Master’s Golf Tournament. He led this year’s tournament for the first three rounds and had a…
-
PSA Media Releases – 1. Pharmacists in GP Clinics in UK 2. Real Time Prescription Monitoring in Vic.
Australia should follow UK for pharmacists in GP clinics April 27, 2016 The Australian Government should follow the United Kingdom to provide funding support for integrating pharmacists into general practice clinics, according to the peak national organisation for pharmacists, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA). The British Department of Health – through NHS England –…
-
NPS Media Releases – 1. Individual Antibiotic Action Needed 2. Excellence in Media Reporting
20 APRIL 2016 ANTIBIOTIC RESEARCH IS HEARTENING BUT INDIVIDUAL ACTION STILL NEEDED Following from last night’s Catalyst episode, ‘Antibiotic Resistance’ on ABC TV examining Australia’s profligate use of antibiotics, NPS MedicineWise is reminding Australians to preserve the miracle of antibiotics by avoiding antibiotics when they’re not needed. The program highlighted how for something that is a limited and valuable…
-
EDITORIAL for Monday 18 April 2016
Welcome to this edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday 18 April 2016. In this edition we express concerns for the general state and quality of our political leadership, both in national terms and internal pharmacy. We seem to be losing our sense of democracy with leaders appearing to be forever compromised and becoming…
-
The Corporate Capture of Democracy (and Community Pharmacy)
GetUp! sent me an email that included the following words: “Major corporations in Australia just threatened a $20 million campaign blitz, to hold onto their power and avoid scrutiny of their scandalous conduct. But from the rise of Bernie Sanders, to the fall of Iceland’s tax dodging Prime Minister, there’s a new popular global uprising…
-
Switzerland Gets it Right
Switzerland is a country known for its precision and its ability to keep its transport system “on time”. It is a landlocked country so when it decides how it could survive, it basically chose financial services and manufacturing industries that are “light” in weight but high value. Drug manufacture fitted that requirement, as was watch-making.…