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Customers feat on great service
How much would you pay for an egg? Fifty cents? Two dollars? How about $6,000? That’s how much it cost one restaurant in Newport Beach which refused to honor a customer’s request. Not through legal action, or any formal process. Rather, it represents the lost business that eatery suffered – because of one egg.…
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Am I missing something?
Old chestnuts aren’t allowed to settle. Unbalanced pharmacy media reporting just keeps on keeping on. I was puzzled recently about a debate around the value of homeopathy in the UK. The report keeps the pot boiling on how homeopathic remedies are a “waste of money” and more importantly, “may even cause harm”. More fascinating to…
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Sleep disorder expert appointed new ResMed Chair
Sleep disorder expert Professor Peter Cistullihas been appointed the ResMed Chair in Sleep Medicine at the University of Sydney. Professor Cistulli will lead the University’s research, clinical, and educational activities in advancing the field of sleep-disordered breathing and its impact on chronic disease management. The new Chair is funded by ResMed and will work across…
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Soil and our future – health, climate change and feeding the world
The impact of soil on children’s blood lead levels to how farmers can respond to climate change are among the hot button issues under discussion at the 2015 Agriculture and Environment Research Symposium. The University of Sydney’s Faculty of Agriculture and Environment brings together leading experts from Australia, New Zealand and the United States for…
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PSA Media Releases – 1. Inappropriate Antibiotic use 2. Pharmacists in GP Clinics
July 24, 2105 New report reinforces need for action on inappropriate use of antibiotics A report highlighting that some 30 per cent of prescriptions were deemed to be inappropriate highlights the need for vigilance in prescribing antibiotics, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia says. The results of the 2013 National Antimicrobial Prescribing (NAP) survey, released today,…
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ASMI Media Release – ASMI Conference puts the spotlight on ‘innovating’ to a self care future
ASMI Conference puts the spotlight on ‘innovating’ to a self care future 22 July 2015 – Innovating to a Self Care Future is the theme of the Australian Self Medication Industry (ASMI) annual conference this year. The ASMI Diamond Awards Dinner, the premier industry event for the year, will take place following the conference. ASMI…
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NPS Media Releases – 1. Chronic Pain 2. Primary Health Partners Education 3. New Members for Choosing Wisely
23 JULY 2015 LET’S TALK ABOUT CHRONIC PAIN Chronic pain is complex and can be difficult to treat. One in five Australians, including children and adolescents, live with chronic pain.In Australians aged 65 years or over this rises to one in three. For this National Pain Week, with the theme ‘Pain … Let’s talk about…
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EDITORIAL For Monday 20 July 2015
Welcome to i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E- Magazine for Monday 20 July 2015. This week we bring forward the vision for the new paradigm pharmacy that has to come into being to form a stable unit for holding the practice of pharmacy together as a cohesive unit and moving forward into a range of enterprise…
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Why Large Pharmacies Must Develop
Traditionally, when pharmacists reach a mature point in their business and practice development, they have looked to increase their success by adding a new pharmacy to their collection. And sometimes more than two pharmacies, expanding to the legal limit of five or six (or even more using creative investment practices). While the gross profit capacity…
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The Workforce Summit, Senior Pharmacists, Aged Care & Designing a More Inclusive Succession System
The emergence of a “think tank” for Australian pharmacy ought to be a significant event, but you would never think so because it is so “low key”, It was recently responsible for the pharmacy profession’s first ever Australian Pharmacist Workforce Summit, ‘uniting our profession for a sustainable future’ – an event that was held on…