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Editorial For Monday 27 October 2014
Welcome to the current edition of i2P – Information to Pharmacists. This week we have a new article on Ebola and we were pleased to see that two other publications were released just after the i2P alert, the first in any medical publication in Australia. The two publications were Australian Doctor and the Pharmacy Guild…
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EDITORIAL for Monday, 20 October 2014
The weeks are certainly speeding up as it only seems yesterday that I wrote the last editorial and the day before that again – when the new format for i2P was introduced. Welcome to the current edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) and the very topical material we have this week. Ebola appears in almost…
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EDITORIAL For 13 October, 2014
Well there has been a flurry of media releases from PSA, NPS and ASMI as they have all taken advantage of a captive audience at PAC14. PSA have released 10 important messages in total ranging from comments made by Minister Dutton in relation to better utilisation of pharmacists in the health system; a range of…
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EDITORIAL for Monday, 6 October 2014
Welcome to this week’s edition of i2P E-Magazine (Information to Pharmacists). This week seemed to mark some new directions in health – and with pharmacy involvement. The Consumer Health Forum appears to be organising a program for its constituents that most health practitioners could align with. i2P has an article detailing the ideas. Certainly i2P…
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EDITORIAL For Monday 29 September, 2014
Well, what an interesting week just gone by where we see the AMA promote the idea to medical prescribers that they deprescribe! Has it not occurred to them that for their polypharmacy patients it should be now mandatory for an HMR to be ordered? Government take note. Here is an area of savings for the…
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Editorial for Monday, 22 September 2014
Welcome to the current edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists), published on 22 September 2014. The week past has seen the release of the draft Competition Policy in which is contained a recommendation for change in the rules of ownership for pharmacy as well as the location rules. The document points out that if discussed…
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Editorial for Monday, 15 September, 2014
Welcome to i2P-(Information to Pharmacists) edition for the 15th September 2014. The Pharmacy Landscape seems very unsettled and with the announcement by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia (PGA) that HMR quotas will continue into the 6CPA. This is very disappointing and may weigh heavily with some accredited pharmacists who saw HMR’s as being a suitable…
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Editorial for Sunday 8th September 2014
Welcome to i2P this week. Things do seem to be moving in the pharmacy political arena with on the one hand, the AMA accusing the PGA of turf encroachment and consultant pharmacists accusing the PGA of conflict of interest in respect of HMR’s, their payment and their number. It’s a bit like a three-ring circus…
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From the Editor’s Desk 31 August 2014
My reading list is definitely expanding each week in an attempt to keep up with a wide range of issues affecting pharmacy at a local, national and international level. As far as pharmacy is concerned, the issues are virtually identical for each country- they just have slightly different systems and solutions for dealing with the…
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From the Editor’s Desk- 24 August 2014
I had occasion to look up the Google analytics figures relating to the new i2P publication, and I am pleased to report: * It has an open rate of 36% of subscribers compared to an industry average of 19.4%. This figure relates to the quality of content and we should be able to improve further…