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Marketing Focus- What Industry are you in?
How strikingly honest! The recent statement by the newly appointed Managing Director of the Myer department store network was refreshingly candid and open.He declared that in recent years Myer had lost its relevance to many consumers and that it would take at least 3 years to redress.The figures and history support and endorse those sentiments.Since…
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Take charge of your attitude
A mother was ready for a few minutes of relaxation after a long and demanding day. However, her young daughter had other plans for her mother’s time. “Read me a story, Mommy,” the little girl pleaded. “Give Mommy a few minutes to relax. Then I’ll be happy to read you a story,” the mother replied. …
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Pharmacy Inertia is Crippling Development – Build Clinical Spaces and Move into your Local Area Market Plan
I was standing at the reception counter at my local GP waiting to make an appointment for my next visit. It was a hive of activity with conversations animatedly occurring all around me. It was obviously going to be a bit of a wait before I got my turn and I started to observe more…
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Apple’s Genius Bar – an Opportunity for Pharmacy
We have written about the Apple Genius Bar before, and its transformation into a “health bar” in the UK-based Lloydspharmacy. We have also previously commented on how similar it was to the pre-1960’s pharmacy counter and how it was private enough then for pharmacy patients. For Apple, the Genius Bar has been a great success story…
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Unprecedented Attacks on PGA Post-ANAO Report
“Australian pharmacy is in a death throe whether you are an accredited consultant or a community pharmacist and the PGA has been the spectacular lobbying body that has brought us to this point.” This is just a sample of one of the many comments currently circulating since the publication of the ANAO audit report after…
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Doctor Groups and CHF Deliver Collective Criticism of Pharmacy
About forty years ago I found myself in a vigorous debate with Greg Haines, the pharmacy historian. He made the claim that pharmacy had never initiated major changes to its professional foundations and that such change had always been initiated by the medical profession, or the government or both in unison. These days when doctors…
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Post ANAO Report – the way ahead.
In his State of the Union address on 20 January, 2015, President Barrack Obama said: “I want the country that eliminated polio and mapped the human genome to lead a new era of medicine—one that delivers the right treatment at the right time.” And crucial to achieving that reality, said experts who addressed the 2014…
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Science teaches us that we must see to believe, but we must also believe in order to see!
The current ruling on homeopathy defies logical reasoning, bearing in mind that just 60 studies were taken into account of 1300 submitted Systematic reviews typically find a lack of definite positive evidence of efficacy, and recommend further research. 49% of systematic research reviews on conventional medicine reach similar “inclusive” conclusions, 96% recommend further research. (El…
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Print your own medicine – a $9 million 3D printing research and development hub opens in Melbourne
If I was back in my early 40’s, and including the energy levels I had back then, I would certainly not be wasting my time about the latest political “spin doctoring” from pharmacy organisations or government. It is so much a waste of time. I would be looking to harness the latest in scientific research and…
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Management Consultancy Practices, Best Doctor Service and Establishing Pharmacy Clinical Services
As an accredited management consultant, it is common practice to seek second opinions from a variety of other consultants depending on their specialty. Before I retired from my management consultancy practice we had to have a method to train other consultants economically and productively. To do this we had a number of “in-house” activities where…