Pharmacy Guild scope-of-practice push continues The calls, found in a submission to the National Rural Health Commissioner, include the ability to prescribe medicines and administer more vaccines.
Australians engaging in ‘high risk’ asthma practices New research reveals wide misuse of over-the-counter reliever puffers, suggesting many patients fail to properly manage their condition.
Convenience store push to sell medicines met with pharmacist resistance But should restrictions on pharmacy- and pharmacist-only medicine be reviewed?
Further expansion of WA pharmacy vaccinations takes effect Pharmacists in Western Australia can now provide a wider range of vaccinations, but GPs are concerned this situation will compromise standard of care.
Queensland pharmacy study ‘really worrying’ Nearly one in three visits to more than 200 Brisbane pharmacists involved some form of overtreatment or overselling of medication.
What’s behind the recent tensions between pharmacy and general practice? The ongoing push to widen pharmacy scope of practice is concerning many in general practice.
Superbug warning as states look at expanding pharmacy Suggestions the Queensland Government exposed the community to a major health risk follow revelations that WA may increase pharmacy scope of practice.
RACGP lobbies MPs to overturn ‘shortsighted’ pharmacy prescribing trial The RACGP has taken the unprecedented step of writing to Queensland’s parliamentarians in a bid to halt the state’s trial allowing pharmacists to prescribe specific antibiotics.
Another state lowers age limit for pharmacy vaccinations Western Australia will allow pharmacists to provide influenza vaccinations to children as young as 10 after a spate of flu-related deaths.
Questions over expansion of Tasmania’s flu vaccine program Allowing pharmacists to administer vaccinations to children as young as 10 risks patient safety, according to the RACGP.