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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Government lacks a comprehensive strategy to address medicines shortages, crossbench MP warns Fresh efforts to combat medicine shortages are being described as “a minimal increase in our degree of ...

Pharmacists unable to practice to current scope due to restrictions on continued dispensing, pharmacy leader says Red tape requiring emergency measures to be implemented to allow pharmacists to ...

Hospital pharmacists call for national medicines access equity for patients, and a more useful approach to medicines shortages Advanced Pharmacy Australia has released its 2025-26 federal pre-budget ...

Lily Pham, Jenny Kirschner and Amanda Fairjones at the NSW inquiry into loneliness. Could a change to prescriptions see pharmacists providing easier access to social prescribing? Pharmacists from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gender and body mass index are linked to the likelihood of a fall in residential aged care, study finds Dr Charles Okafor from UQ’s Centre for Health Services Research said the study, published in ...