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    Tag: Pharmacists

    Another State Government pledges to follow Queensland and Victoria with huge expansion of pharmacy prescribing

    June 16, 2025

    More pharmacists will diagnose and prescribe S4 drugs for wounds, reflux and shingles if the Liberal Government is re-elected in Tasmania’s snap election next month.…

    40 pharmacists qualify as ‘doctors’ after new title applied to existing degrees

    June 10, 2025

    Forty graduate pharmacists can already call themselves ‘doctor’ despite not knowing they would receive the title when they started their degrees. Minister for Health and…

    Pharmacists will become ‘doctors’ with a one-year online master’s degree — this is how

    May 22, 2025

    Pharmacists got the news last year that they would be able to call themselves ‘doctors’ after completing a new extended master’s degree. They are not…

    State Govt will cover the cost of pharmacist consults for 20 medical conditions including diabetes and hypertension

    May 20, 2025

    Victorian pharmacists with extra training will manage and prescribe S4 drugs for type 2 diabetes, hypertension and allergies through taxpayer-funded consultations, Premier Jacinta Allen says.…

    Queensland Premier David Crisafulli. AAP.

    1350 consults in first year of pharmacist prescribing in Queensland

    May 14, 2025

    Queensland pharmacists have conducted 1350 consultations for medical conditions such as shingles, impetigo and reflux in their first year of prescribing S4 medicines. By May…

    Patient died after 16 weeks on therapeutic paracetamol dose, coroner says

    March 25, 2025

    A 47-year-old man died from acute liver failure after less than four months on the maximum recommended dose of paracetamol, a coroner says. Paul McHugh,…

    Pharmacy prescribing made permanent in Queensland despite just 62 pharmacists finishing their training

    March 21, 2025

    Pharmacist prescribing of S4 drugs for impetigo, reflux and obesity is becoming a permanent part of the health system despite a lack of evaluation. Queensland…

    Press ‘one’ for healthcare: Will vending machines take over as GPs brace for extinction?

    February 28, 2025

    For too long, vending machines have languished in dark corridors, dispensing soft drinks and fat-filled snacks, contributing to the obesity epidemic. In a revolutionary program,…

    Pharmacists to prescribe S4 antibiotics and contraceptives to concessional patients under the PBS, Fed Govt says

    February 10, 2025

    Pharmacists will diagnose UTIs and prescribe hormonal contraceptives for concession card holders from 2026, the Federal Government has pledged. The government will spend $100 million…

    Mark Butler announces new five-year degree that will allow pharmacists to call themselves ‘doctor’

    November 21, 2024

    Pharmacists who complete a new extended master’s degree will have the right to call themselves ‘doctor’, Mark Butler has announced. The federal Minister for Health…

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