Welcome to i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine, dated Monday 25 January 2016. This week we review the new flagship retail store developed for Blackmores, the highly successful manufacturer of vitamins, minerals and a range nutritional supplements and functional foods. Blackmores has independently incorporated many concepts researched or developed by i2P, so it is with a…

Welcome to i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday January 18, 2016 – our first edition for the new year, which is likely to be a difficult year as government changes to the 6CPA begin to bite. This is likely to spin off a cascade of in-fighting between government and pharmacy as well as the…

Welcome to this weeks’ edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday, December 21 2015. We now take a break to join with our own families and celebrate the festive season and will rejoin you after this recess early in January 2016. But what a year 2015 has been, with Pharmacy almost being turned…

Welcome to this weeks’ edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday, 14 December 2015. In my nearly sixty years of being a pharmacist, my motivation in staying around for so long has always been job satisfaction, through the ability to make a difference for a patient. It was never about a high prescription…

Welcome to this weeks’ edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine, dated 7 December 2015. This week we are hearing concerns about the affordability of taking a break over the festive season, a decision that will set up a fatigue process that will cloud decision-making in the coming months. At the heart of that decision…

Welcome to this weeks’ edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday 30 November, 2015. As we move into the festive season for a number of cultures, it does become a moment for introspection, family, a review of values and a collective moment to check on how we are all travelling. While I am…

Welcome to this weeks’ edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday, 23rd November, 2015. Well, it’s now countdown to Christmas where traditionally forward planning and implementation processes are put on hold, and hopefully there will be a Christmas stimulus and  cash flow positive position at the end of the holiday season. If forward…

Welcome to this weeks’ edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) dated Monday 9 November 2015. Well the “race that stops a nation” certainly electrified the nation when an all-Aussie team got up and beat all the overseas opposition and produced the first female jockey ever to win a Melbourne Cup. Just shows what courage and…

Welcome to this weeks’ edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) dated Monday 2 November 2015. Well its almost Christmas and the year does seem to have been a rapid one. An early Christmas present for pharmacy was delivered as part of Sussan Ley’s National Press Club on Wednesday 28 October. She delivered the announcement that the investigation into…

Welcome to this weeks’ edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists ) E-Magazine, dated Monday 26 October 2015. In this edition we open up the potential of pharmacists developing and managing the economic benefits that could accrue with an association with marijuana. For the past 70 years this substance has had scientific research suppressed into its…