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PSA Media Releases – 1. World Pharmacist Day 2. Lloyd Sansom at PAC14 3. Tasmanians get 90 percent Funding
1. World Pharmacists Day, Thursday 25 September 2014 Pharmacists and pharmacy students around Australia will celebrate World Pharmacists Day on Thursday 25 September, with a series of health promotion events, health check services and fun activities. The theme of this year’s events, Access to pharmacists is access to health, aims to increase public awareness of the role…
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PSA MEDIA RELEASES: 1.Immunisation focus at PAC14 2. Martin Bowles Welcomed
1.Immunisation focus at PAC14 Pharmacist-delivered immunisations are potentially an area of great opportunity for the pharmacy profession with the results of Phase 1 of the Queensland trial showing stunning results. Analysis of Phase 1 of the pilot in Queensland shows more than 10,000 people were vaccinated by pharmacists during the trial. Further, 96% of those…
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Time for debate on maximising pharmacists’ role in improving consumer health outcomes
Pharmacists, doctors and other health professionals need a serious and objective discussion on the future role of pharmacists in the health system, the Acting National President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, Joe Demarte, said today. Mr Demarte was responding to calls by the AMA President, Associate Professor Brian Owler, for the Government to immediately…
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Philanthropy and Tex- Mex – an amazing story at PAC14
Medical practitioner, philanthropist and successful businessman Dr Sam Prince will be a highlight of PAC14 in Canberra when he details his amazing life and career, and the work he is doing on partnering and practising in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Dr Prince is a renowned motivational speaker and will detail how he came…
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Pharmacists Given Opportunity to Help Plan for the Future
The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia has launched a major survey seeking to gather information to help PSA position the profession for the delivery of more evidence-based professional services in the future. Chief Executive Officer of the PSA, Dr Lance Emerson, said the PSA was looking at the role of professional services in the Sixth Community…
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Nominate now for 2014 PSA Excellence Awards
Nominations for the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia prestigious Awards for Excellence – acknowledged as the pharmacy profession’s most prestigious and sought-after awards – are open for only another four weeks. National President of PSA, Grant Kardachi, said the PSA Excellence Awards acknowledged and recognised some of the profession’s great achievers and he encouraged pharmacists to…