HPS’ Pharmacy Business articles provide a look at what’s happening within the broader pharmacy industry, including legislative changes and other factors affecting the pharmacy industry. See below to view the most recent Pharmacy Business articles.
April 25th 2015 marks the 100th anniversary of the ANZAC landings at Gallipoli. HPS and its network of pharmacies would like to commemorate the role of pharmacists in World War I (WWI) and has invited guest…
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The National Medical Stockpile was established in response to potential terrorist threats following the events of September 11, 2001. It was expanded to include health emergencies of natural causes with the addition of antivirals…
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HPS began servicing residential facilities when care was focussed on recreating a ‘home-like’ environment; where medicines were still handled much in the way that grandma used to. Orders relied on prescriptions as drug charts…
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Pseudomyxoma peritonei is a rare form of cancer which usually relates to intra-abdominal tumours that, when burst, release jelly-like mucus into the abdominal cavity. These cancers have previously been treated by serial operations to…
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The World Health Organisation recently declared the international spread of poliovirus a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), naming Pakistan, Cameroon, Syria, Afghanistan, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Iraq, Israel, Somalia, and Nigeria as sources…
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All candidates for Pharmacist Registration must undertake an oral examination to demonstrate their competency, based on standards set out in the National Competency Standards Framework for Pharmacists in Australia, November 2010. As an Australian…
Read moreAustralian Pharmacists at World War I (Apr. 23 2015)
National Medical Stockpile (Jan. 13 2015)
HPS Celebrates 40 Years of Dose Administration (Jan. 06 2015)
A Rare Form of Cancer (Jan. 01 2015)
Polio – An International Health Emergency (Nov. 05 2014)
AHPRA Examinations Measure Professional Pharmacy Standards (Jun. 20 2014)
Duty of Care: Day Surgery (Jun. 20 2014)
Good Medication Orders Get Better Results (Jun. 20 2014)
Clinical Trials Conducted at Pacific Private (Mar. 04 2014)
Pharmacists to Administer Vaccines in 2014 Influenza Season (Mar. 04 2014)
“Complements” to the English Language (Mar. 04 2014)
Par-ent(er)al Demystified (Mar. 04 2014)
HPS Introduces Tall Man Lettering (Mar. 04 2014)
Accreditation in Pharmacies (Dec. 12 2013)
Schedule Negotiations May Be Too Public (Dec. 12 2013)
Pharmacists to “Continue Dispensing” (Dec. 12 2013)
Worldwide medicines shortage (Dec. 12 2013)
Opportunity Within Challenge (Sep. 15 2013)
Patent vs Free Market (Sep. 15 2013)
Accreditation in Practice (Sep. 15 2013)
How can people access, and die from, synthetic drugs? (Sep. 15 2013)
Sustaining Chemotherapy Services (Jun. 30 2013)
Tribunal supports Di-Gesic and Doloxene (Jun. 30 2013)
Healthcare Demographics Drive Reform (Jun. 30 2013)
Junee Correctional Centre Improves Health (Feb. 21 2013)
Anticoagulants in Atrial Fibrillation Under Review (Feb. 21 2013)
Australasian Clinical Indicator Report (Feb. 21 2013)
HPS Pharmacies now offers MedsCheck (Feb. 21 2013)
