Welcome to this weeks edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) for 16 March 2015. We open this issue with a report on a public-private partnership between the UK government and Celesio, a major European pharmacy conglomerate trading as Lloydspharmacy, a well known and long established pharmacy brand in the UK. What is being proven by…

Welcome to this weeks’ publication of i2P E-Magazine, dated 9 March 2015. This week we highlight the opportunities for pharmacy associated with the Intergenerational Report 2015, a document that some claim has been politicised. In the recent past an earlier, but faulty content version, was used as justification to be disruptive to the practice of…

Welcome to this weeks’ i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated 2 March 2015. This week we start with that appalling medical propaganda attempt as presented by SBS titled “Saving Health”. i2P’s interpretation is found at this link: Saving Health – and Pharmacy if you can find it The reason we are so horrified is that the…

Welcome to this weeks’ i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated 23 February 2015. This week we have some very important reference material that has coincided with a PSA(NSW Branch) initiative. We were initially looking for signs that funding for clinical service pharmacists might come from the Australian government. Nowhere could we see anything positive! In…

Welcome to this week’s edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) dated 16 February 2015. It has become obvious that cultural changes have occurred within the pharmacy profession – not all positive. In this edition we report on the tragedy of the Pharmore management company and how it is a loss for all of pharmacy. The…

Welcome to this weeks’ edition of i2P E-magazine (Information to Pharmacists) dated Monday 9 February 2015. While we have the greatest respect for the skills of our doctors and nurses there is always a point of competition at the boundaries of our professions where we have to fight each other to define these boundaries. Generally,…

Welcome to this week’s edition of i2P- Information to Pharmacists dated Monday, 2 February, 2015. Politics, both state and federal has been dominating the news of late, and that can be unsettling at a time when pharmacy generally is struggling to come to terms with the massive price reductions of the past six months, plus…

Welcome to the new weekly edition of i2P – Information to Pharmacists dated Monday, 26 January 2015.We hope that you are enjoying the Australia Day festivities and reflecting on the fact that despite the occasional upset, Australia is really still the “lucky country”. Perhaps we feel “hard done by” in the ranks of pharmacy as…

Welcome to the new weekly i2P E-Magazine edition for Monday 19 January 2015. While I believe that 2015 will be a better year for pharmacy, I would only qualify the statement to include the words “for those who pull their finger out”. A crude but effective message! How else do you think things will happen…

Welcome to this week’s edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) commencing Monday 12 January 2015. Sluggishly, it seems we are beginning to awaken from holiday excesses and face a brave new world in 2015. It would seem disappointingly to i2P that many pharmacists did not progress professionally in 2014, leaving the New Year as having…