Pharmacists and Mental Health

Pharmacists and Mental Health The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) announce that it will shortly commence a review and revision of the Statement of Mental Health Care Capabilities for Pharmacists 2009. The project will update the current…

Time To Enroll For PSA Intern Training

Time To Enroll For PSA Intern Training Program Pharmacy students moving into the workforce as practising pharmacists have until 31 August 2011 to enroll in the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia’s National Intern Training Program (NITP),…

New Job Program in Pharmaceutical Indu

Getting A Favour of Carees in Pharmaceutical Industry Approaching a job outside the traditional hospital and community pharmacy areas can be daunting, but a special workshop session at PAC11 will give pharmacists insights into how to do this,…

Chance For ECPs to Have Their Say

Chance For ECPs to Have Their Say Early Career Pharmacists are invited to submit topics for discussion at the inaugural ECP forum being held as part of PAC11 in October. The forum will give ECPs a unique opportunity to hear about developments…

PGA Newsletter Vol.1 No.15,24th August

PGA Forefront Newsletter Volume 1, No.15, 10 August 2011 In terms of electronic recording, the Guild recommends that pharmacies sign up for the GuildCare suite of programs, which is already providing more than 2500 pharmacies with easy systemised…

PGA Newsletter Vol.1 No.14

PGA Forefront Newsletter Volume 1, No.13, 10 August 2011 PBS expenditure is slowing and remains well under control, which should allay any concerns the Federal Government may have about the sustainability of the scheme

PGA Newsletter Vol.1 No.13

PGA Forefront Newsletter Volume 1, No.13, 10 August 2011 Considerable price drops on generic medicines will occur. Those price drops will vary but an overall average 23 per cent price drop has been guaranteed by Medicines Australia

Slowdown in PBS Spending Growth

Slowdown in PBS Spending Growth The PBS expenditure grew by 5.2 per cent in 2010-11, almost half the average PBS growth for the preceding decades (9.2 per cent). According to the Government’s Intergenerational Report, PBS expenditure as a…

Health warnings on tobacco packaging

Tobacco - Health warnings Source: http://www.health.gov.au/pubhlth/strateg/drugs/tobacco/warnings.htm

Graphic Tobacco Warning

Graphic Tobacco Warning: National Campaign (MEDIA RELEASE) The advertisement and a media release in May 2004 that was put in by a group of health organisations (including the Pharmacy Guild of Australia) campaigning for the graphic images…