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.…
Tag: Pharmacy Guild of Australia
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…
67 doctors sign up to supervise pharmacists in ‘reckless’ Qld prescribing trial
Almost 70 doctors, half of them GPs, have agreed to supervise pharmacists while they train to prescribe S4 drugs and manage chronic conditions under Queensland’s…
The latest trial of pharmacist UTI prescribing looks legitimate – until you read the diagnostic standards
The pharmacy trial for the management of UTIs by community pharmacists in NSW is fundamentally flawed in ways that will render its results on safety…
Aged care residents must not pick up pharmacists’ 60-day dispensing bill, warns health department
The federal Department of Health and Aged Care has written to aged care homes warning they cannot charge residents for managing their medications if pharmacists…
Pharmacy guild and govt’s peace deal already at risk after question time protest
A truce between the Pharmacy Guild of Australia and the Federal Government could be on shaky ground following another pharmacy lobby group’s protest at Parliament…
D-day has arrived! The short and curlies of GPs’ new 60-day dispensing powers
If you were to believe the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, GPs now have pharmacy owners by the short and curlies. An interesting and unexpected turnaround,…
