‘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…
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Pharmacists set to prescribe for shingles under expanded trial
Pharmacists in NSW will soon begin prescribing first line treatments for uncomplicated herpes zoster with an expansion of the trial to include some skin conditions…
Greens Senator accuses ‘disingenuous’ pharmacy guild of lobbying for vapes to be made S2
For a group pushing for pharmacists to diagnose more, prescribe more and dispense more, it seems there is one place it does not want to…
It is meant to save billions, but just how many 60-day scripts are GPs writing?
If you have been rummaging around the pre-federal budget news coverage, you may have read about the billions of dollars taxpayers will be saving as…
Guild outraged over political deal to turn pharmacists into ‘vape garbage collectors’
The Federal Government’s snap decision to make vapes an OTC medicine from October has outraged the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, which says treating pharmacists as…
Ordinary pharmacists are no more than wage slaves for the pharmacy owners
There is something curious about the proposed merger between Chemist Warehouse and Sigma Healthcare. Chemist Warehouse has about 550 retail pharmacies. × Welcome to AusDoc.…
Fed Govt to hand pharmacists $2 billion in compensation for 60-day dispensing
Pharmacies will receive an extra $4.79 per 60-day script dispensed under a new funding agreement with the Federal Government, which has patched up its fractured…
Pharmacy guild a frontrunner in donations to major political parties
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia has emerged as a frontrunner in the largest donations to major political parties, placing third in the nation. It took a podium…
Pharmacy corporates’ $9 billion merger strikes fear into the guild’s heart
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia has sounded the alarm over a planned merger between Chemist Warehouse and Sigma Healthcare, which would see the pharmacy giants…
Mass mail-out will implore GPs to stop writing 60-day scripts
GPs can expect letters imploring them not to write 60-day scripts to protect patients’ “financial best interest” and to preserve access to Webster packs and…
