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Push to free up GPs with more pharmacist prescriptions

Letting pharmacists write medication scripts could save $1 billion in health costs and free up 10 million GP visits a year, a report has found.

AAP

Pharmacists role in ACT's VAD bill needs clarity, guild says

Pharmacists expect VAD questions, but their role remains unclear.

The Canberra Times

ACT pharmacies to prescribe UTI treatment

The ACT is joining a NSW government trial.

The Canberra Times

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Pharmacy Guild accused in Senate of using patient contact details to protest Labor’s dispensing changes

Medical association labels guild’s opposition to new rules a ‘sick joke’ and says patient’s personal information is ‘sacrosanct, not a plaything’

The Guardian - AU

The Pharmacy Guild of Australia says the government's 60-day script policy will worsen medicine shortages. What does the data say?

The Pharmacy Guild of Australia says 400 drugs are on the "critical" shortage list and 20 per cent of those would be out of stock due to the government's new 60-day script policy. But the data tells a different story.

ABC News

Pharmacy Guild unleashes robocalls, text messages and posters opposing PBS changes

Patients say they are distressed and disappointed after receiving calls warning of prescription medicine shortages "due to the Albanese Labor government".

ABC News

Pharmacy ownership changes could creep into new legislation

The introduction of the long-awaited Therapeutic Products Bill has excluded changing the rules on pharmacy ownership but Andrew Little told Newsroom he’ll keep an open mind.

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Pharmacist prescription trial proposed as possible solution to the GP shortage faces indefinite delays

Some Australians are waiting longer than ever to see their GP, and one state has come up with a possible solution that would allow pharmacists to take over some of the doctors' prescription work. But a trial that was due to begin in June has now been delayed, with no…

ABC News

Pharmacies want over-the-counter COVID-19 antiviral access in Australia, as more people look to take oral treatments

Two COVID-19 oral antiviral treatments have been approved for use in Australia, and some say they should be more readily available.

ABC News

Aus Is Facing A Shortage Of Over 300 ‘Essential’ Drugs Including Contraception Diabetes Meds

Australia is facing a shortage of more than 300 medicines including contraception, anti-depressants and hormone replacement drugs.

Pedestrian.tv

Australia faces ‘dire’ shortage of more than 300 medicines, doctors and pharmacists warn

Drugs for diabetes, hormone replacement, depression, nausea and stroke among those listed by the TGA as in short supply

The Guardian - AU

Daniel Lewis honoured as much-loved and valued employee of Cooleman Court Pharmacy

Daniel welcomes everyone who visits the pharmacy and is the resident expert on robotics

The Canberra Times

Pharmacy Guild's rapid antigen test finder suffers tech difficulties 'under huge amount of pressure'

A website designed to be a "single source of truth" in the search for rapid antigen tests at pharmacies has faced significant technical difficulties on its first day as "millions" attempt to access it.

ABC News

Rapid antigen tests: Australian consumers miss out as government and big business snap up supplies

Pharmacy Guild says huge orders diverting supplies away from consumers as Greg Hunt labels claim federal government is requisitioning tests ‘a plain lie’

The Guardian - AU

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