Sigma Healthcare is flagging the potential for a state regulator to reject an application by a Chemist Warehouse franchisee as a risk to growth and profitability ...

Doctors welcome the women’s health package, but criticise the pharmacy trials included As part of the $573.3 million women’s health package announced Sunday (9 February 2025), pharmacists will be able ...

National trials for pharmacy UTI and contraceptive pill services, new menopause and contraceptive treatments on the PBS, and ...

With a “drastic” change in competition, pay rates have dropped for locums, one expert says – and many employers cap or don’t pay travel costs Co-founder of Locumate Kavita Nadan ...

Government urged to back scope of practice expansion ahead of Federal Budget  Treasurer Dr Jim Chalmers is being urged to support efforts to “unleash” pharmacists’ potentials in the upcoming Federal ...

Expansion of paramedics’ scope of practice an “important step towards improving access to healthcare”, Guild leader says Legislation authorising Victorian paramedics to assess, diagnose and treat ...

Sigma issues positive trading update ahead of results announcement Sigma Healthcare is already reaping the rewards of securing its supply contract with Chemist Warehouse. In a trading update issued to ...

We take a look at the days when “any one” could sell arsenic-saturated biscuits with no poison warnings It’s January 1905, and the pharmacists of Australia’s youthful Commonwealth have medicines ...

Pharmacists unable to practice to current scope due to restrictions on continued dispensing, pharmacy leader says ...

Could a change to prescriptions see pharmacists providing easier access to social prescribing? Pharmacists from the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia NSW and Pharmacy Addressing Loneliness and ...

The federal government has announced more funding for public hospitals – but does this extend to pharmacists? The Albanese government has announced an additional $1.7 billion to fund public hospitals ...

Government policies are boosting access to affordable medicines for patients during cost-of-living crisis, Senator claims ...