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The 8CPA Agreement: A New Dawn for Pharmacists' Career Prospects

As the sun rose on another bustling day in Melbourne, Sarah, a community pharmacist, opened her pharmacy with a renewed sense of hope. She had just read the latest news about the 8th Community Pha...

Budget Win! How the Albanese Government's Budget Benefits Aussie Community Pharmacies

Remember that time a patient told you they couldn't afford their medication? Thanks to some key measures in the Albanese Government's 2024 Commonwealth Budget, that might become a thing of the pas...

Why Pharmacy Students should be included in the new Commonwealth Prac Payment

In the small town of Mudgee, NSW, the local community pharmacist starts their day before the first light creeps through the pharmacy door. As the town awakens, their pharmacy becomes a bustling hu...

Australian Labor Government: Striking a Balance for Pharmacists and Small Businesses

Imagine this: you're a community pharmacist, the backbone of your local neighbourhood. You dispense medication, answer health questions, and provide a friendly face for those in need. But behind th...

Pharmacy Owners Guide to COVID-19 Financial Support

Pitcher Partners manager in Pitcher Pharmacy, Robert Hughes, has prepared the available Financial Support Guide for pharmacy owners to assist with understanding the support available to their busin...

Pharmaceutical companies have two days to report shortages from Jan 2019

"In early 2018, Australia was hit by a shortage of EpiPens, which provide lifesaving adrenalin for people who have had an acute allergic response. In this and a number of other cases, shortages wer...

Increase in Pharmacy Pay Rates

The pharmacy award minimum pay rate has seen a 3.5% increase as per a national wage case decision handed down by the Fair Work Commission. Effective from 1st July, the national minimum wage is $18....

What security do you provide?

With the Government putting renewed pressures on community pharmacy, I believe there would be no surprise that there are a lot of nervous community pharmacy employees out there at the moment, as ph...