Welcome to this weeks’ edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) dated Monday 25 May, 2015. This week we see and hear commentary and debate on the 6CPA with not all detail released and on the table for all to see. In many ways, the 6CPA seems a clumsy attempt to appease all of the critics…

Welcome to this weeks’ edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday 18 May, 2015. This week we have concentrated on looking at elements of a new paradigm pharmacy that can promote clinical services. With 6CPA negotiations seemingly out of the way (but still mysteriously under wraps at the time this edition was circulated),…

Welcome to this week’s edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine commencing on Monday 11 May, 2015. Those of us who have been involved with the PBS scheme since its inception can remember the “down and dirty” tactics that were inflicted on pharmacists since its inception, until the commencement of the Community Pharmacy Agreements. These…

Welcome to i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine for the week commencing 4 May 2015. This week our focus is on leadership – or more specifically, the lack of it. We tuned in to some of the major global thought leaders and found that leadership problems did not just reside in Australian pharmacy but it was…

Welcome to this week’s edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday 27 April 2015. Again, we are seeing a round of mainstream media releases that could only be termed “vindictive”. i2P reminds its readers that the Abbott government and the Murdoch Press have formed an unholy alliance and that 6CPA negotiations are under…

Welcome to this week’s edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) for the week commencing Monday 20 April 2015. Well, this week it would seem that the whole World is talking about vaccine policy and the elements that are being attempted to be built in to those policies. Australia, it seems, with the help of the…

Welcome to the weekly edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine, dated 13 April 2015. Well, this week it’s a case of whether you want to start with the good news or the bad news. Given a choice, the good news should take preference, so here we go…. In a surprising move the PSA has launched…

Welcome to i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine for Monday April 6, 2015. This week we are developing more insights into the new paradigm for pharmacy, in its physical, managerial and professional requisites. And it is taking shape so that we can conceptually “see” what it looks like. In this edition we expand on the types…

Welcome to this weeks’ edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) dated 30 March 2015. All is not morally well in the world of pharmacy. As pharmacists we exist as individuals often belonging to specific groups, factions or other forms of association. As a member of a profession the behaviour of each individual reflects on the…

Welcome to this weeks edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) dated 23 March 2015. I started researching new material for this edition when I received the first article contribution written by John Cook and titled Pharmacy Guild of Australia is no friend of Community Clinical Pharmacists – ANAO. Knowing that the ANAO report was an…