Welcome to the current edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday September 5 2016. Since our last edition the mood has changed once again with community pharmacies worrying about how they will balance out the PBS price cuts due to take effect on October 1 2016. The impacts can be severe and not…

Welcome to the current edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday 22 August 2016. Well, it was a refreshing change of pace since our last edition when on Saturday 13 August we attended the third Blackmore’s Symposium. This event was characterised by quality speakers who delivered the latest research on a range of…

Welcome to the current edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday, 8 August 2016. Since our last edition the Olympic Games have burst across our television screens transmitting a very colourful opening ceremony and a wave of optimism – so different to the tone of pessimistic global news up to that point. Australia…

Welcome to the current edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday 25 July 2016. Since our last edition the entire world seems to have gone mad and in certain countries like America, it is a very unsafe place to live in. People are also feeling powerless as global corporations buy their way into…

Welcome to this current edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine, dated Monday July 11 2016. Well in the period since the last edition our national elections have been completed over a time period that certainly indicates that Australia should be moving towards an online voting system. The archaic manual systems currently being utilised, caused…

Welcome to the current edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday 27 June 2016. Much has happened internationally over the past two weeks, the principal event being BREXIT –the decision made through referendum by the UK to leave the European Union. This means that a certain level of economic and political uncertainty will…

Welcome to the current edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday 13 June 2016. As I write, the Australian national elections draw closer, petitions arrive by email urging me to sign up to a range of urgent problems that seem to flow from a range of poor policy decisions (like the damage to…

Welcome to this edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday 30 May 2016. Well, we are still waiting on the report by Stephen King as part of a long-drawn process of conditioning pharmacists to the acceptance of a program that is going to destroy community pharmacy as we know it. Despite assertions by…

Welcome to this edition of i2P (information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine, dated Monday 16 May 2016. It is acknowledged that working interactively and collaboratively across professional and organisational silos, is more likely to lead to research and work experiences that is relevant, timely and contributes to effective policy and practice – a professionally satisfying experience. Acknowledging…

Welcome to our new edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday 2 May 2016. I have noted with dismay that a recent AJP poll of 1300 pharmacists indicated that 61 percent of them were contemplating leaving the profession. One reassuring aspect of this is that this 61% of obviously depressed pharmacists represents about…