Australia

While Australia was busy defending the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme against threats from the United States in recent weeks, another issue related to the supply and trade of medicines was flying under the radar

New Zealanders who have purchased cold and flu medications over the last 20 years and found them ineffective, are being asked to sign up to a class action.

Australia has new paracetamol restrictions which see significant changes to how many paracetamol tablets or capsules are sold, and from where, at any one time

Sigma Healthcare today announced on the Australian Stock Exchange that Australia’s federal court has approved its merger with Chemist Warehouse

CHEMIST WAREHOUSE and Sigma Healthcare have been given the green light for their multimillion-dollar merger across the Tasman. 

Just as Otago and Auckland universities are looking to replace their Bachelor of Pharmacy degrees with master’s programmes, and Waikato University is about to open the country’s first postgraduate programme so, too, are changes in Australian pharmacy academia afoot. 

Chemist Warehouse and Sigma Healthcare have been given the green light for their multimillion-dollar merger across the Tasman

Opposition is growing to the proposed merger of Chemist Warehouse and Sigma Healthcare across the Tasman

Australia wants to lure more specialist GPs from New Zealand, with a loosening of registration rules by the country’s health ministers 

Pharmacist numbers are being eroded by many factors, including funding, costs associated with practising, overwork and better remuneration overseas. Natasha Jojoa Burling reports