Welcome to i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine for Monday 10 August 2015. This week we draw your attention to a Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) media release that, in part, states: “With pharmacists’ roles expanding into more diverse areas of patient care, the issue of patient consent is coming to the fore. In the August…

Welcome to i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine for Monday 3 August 2015. Now that the political scene is focused more on the Speaker of our parliament, Bronwyn Bishop, and her extraordinary expense allowance (as well as other politicians) we see how “the other half lives”. But we already knew that, and it does not give you…

Welcome to i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated 27 July 2015. This week saw the homeopathy debate in the UK flare up through pressure from skeptic groups. Used in the debate was the flawed study produced by the NHMRC here in Australia – a report that had no expert homeopath appointed to its investigating committee,…

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…

Welcome to this weeks’ edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine for Monday 13 July, 2015. I guess it is human nature that creates conflict of interest. We see it in our own leadership bodies, in government policy creation and more recently, the Bill Shorten episode of election funding donations and enterprise agreements performed simultaneously.…

Welcome to i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine for Monday, 6 July 2015. The “penny” is finally starting to “drop” in that the need for a long-term plan for all of pharmacy has finally taken root. And why has this taken so long? You may well ask this question, and the answer is that all pharmacy/pharmacist…

Welcome to this weeks’ edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday, 29 June 2015. Well there was certainly a flashpoint over an article written by Mark Coleman and published in our last edition. Titled “Homeopathy – a Political Diversion Rather than a Valid Issue”  it  attracted a range of “diversionists” and some of…

Welcome to i2P (Information to Pharmacists) dated 22 June 2015. This week we see tensions rise within community pharmacy as the vote for the 6CPA in the Senate is due for debate and for passing into enabling legislation. Will it be passed before the Senate goes into recess? Time is running out fast. This is…

Welcome to this weeks edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated 15 June, 2015. Well, if it has not become obvious pharmacy is set to be pulled apart and deliberately damaged by a multi-faceted group of pharmacy critics aided by government. The 5CPA management is about to become the focus of a parliamentary investigation…

Welcome to this weeks’ edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) dated 1 June 2015. This week still sees some confusion and disappointment after the signing of the 6CPA agreement. While it does not provide the “certainty” that some commentators are reporting, it does give a five-year hiatus before any major disruptive changes are inflicted on…