Pharmacists in most states can now sell nicotine vapes without a prescription
Pharmacists can now supply nicotine vapes without a prescription in most Australian states under new laws that have outraged the Pharmacy Guild of Australia. From…
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‘This is motivated by women’: NSW Premier grants pharmacists OCP prescribing powers
Pharmacists extending contraceptive pill scripts is becoming a permanent fixture of the NSW health system. Last year, the State Government launched a clinical trial of pharmacists extending…
Shelve the Scope of Practice Review: My plea to Mark Butler
Dear Mr Butler, After one year and more than 1100 submissions, the long painful exercise known as the Scope of Practice Review is set to…
Pharmacists across NSW will manage wounds, reflux and acne ‘to end GP wait times’
The NSW Government wants pharmacists to diagnose and treat seven more conditions by 2026, including mild to moderate acne and acute minor wounds. The other…
Pharmacist who founded telehealth cannabis business banned from dispensing cannabis
A pharmacist who founded online medicinal cannabis clinic Dispensed has had conditions put on his registration banning him from dispensing cannabis. Under Pharmacy Board of…
‘We’ve heard every Chicken Little argument around’: Pharmacy Guild’s message to GP leaders
Do medical groups waste time attacking the Pharmacy Guild of Australia when they should be advancing the interests of doctors? It is certainly the view…
Are dispensing doctors the right response to prescribing pharmacists?
Whenever pharmacists push further into diagnosing and prescribing, GPs ask the question. If the prescriber-dispenser divide is truly an ancient notion, rather than pharmacists prescribing,…
RACGP presidential candidate Professor Michael Clements responds to the big questions facing general practice
This is the last of AusDoc’s question-and-answer articles with the GPs bidding for your vote in the RACGP presidential election, to be held later this…
RACGP election: Presidential candidate Dr Monirul Haque answers AusDoc’s big questions
RACGP members will vote for a new president this month and AusDoc has asked the five candidates to respond to our burning questions about the…
Pharmacist used dead patients’ details to defraud $2 million from PBS: tribunal
A pharmacist who “brazenly” defrauded $1.94 million from the PBS by submitting fake claims, some using dead patients’ details, will not be allowed to apply…
