The end of digital image prescriptions: six things to know

Digital image prescriptions will end on 31 March. Here are the top things pharmacists need to know.

Are you prepared for 60-day dispensing?

As DD day inches closer, pharmacists can expect to start receiving new scripts with 60-day’s supply of medicines from 1 September 2023.

Meet Depinder Chhibber, MasterChef’s pharmacist contestant

While Depinder Chhibber MPS explores her passion for cooking on the current season of MasterChef, she remains a pharmacist at heart.

New migraine treatment approved

The TGA has approved a new preventative treatment for migraine, with a new medicine that targets the calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor. Patients experiencing migraine will...

Lack of SafeScript use linked to patient’s death

More than 3,000 S8 and diazepam tablets prescribed while RTPM was being largely ignored. While doctors were implicated, 14 pharmacists could have been too.

5 changes on 1 July impacting pharmacists

All the new initiatives, funding schemes and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) listings that kicked into gear on 1 July 2023.