by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Mar 31, 2015 | Pharmacist
What do you think? Do you want the Medicines Use Review (MURs) and New Medicine Service (NMS) to become essential services? There is a view that the government may reduce fee to deliver the services over time if they are. The pharmacies with no consultation room may...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Mar 24, 2015 | Training, Transportation
Are the drivers of your logistics company GDP trained if the deliver medicines for you to your customers or to another wholesaler? What would you train them in and why? We recently were asked to deliver training for these important team members. Where did we start? We...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Mar 23, 2015 | Blog
The saga continues here in Australia where the Australian Competitor and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has logged an appeal to the Federal Court over their anti-competitive case against Pfizer. This all stems back to early 2012 as the patent for Lipitor, a large market...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Mar 23, 2015 | Blog
It was announced this week that Hepatitis Australia has recommended to the Government to allow community based prescribing and dispensing of Hepatitis C medications. This would mirror the current treatment for people living with HIV and would move these patients into...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Mar 23, 2015 | Blog
In Australia pharmacy ownership is unique. You must be a pharmacist to own a pharmacy and the Pharmacy Guild, a member organisation of pharmacy owners, negotiates directly with the Government for the way pharmacies are remunerated. This is the model we know in...
