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Today’s issue of PD
Pharmacy Daily today has
Locums set for post-COVID freedom
three pages of news, plus full LOCUM pharmacists impacted by
pages from: travel restrictions can look forward
to greater freedom of movement as
• Sigma
COVID-19-related travel restrictions
• Rehydraid
ease, Raven’s Recruitment reports.
In a blog post published yesterday,
the pharmacy recruitment firm
CPA deadline outlined potential opportunities
NEGOTIATIONS for the for pharmacy owners to access
Seventh Community Pharmacy relief staff to enable employee
Agreement (7CPA) are yet to pharmacists to recharge their
conclude with less than 20 days batteries, as state and territory
until the 6CPA is due to expire. governments roll back on travel
A spokesperson for the restrictions.
Pharmacy Guild of Australia “As the spread of coronavirus with no restrictions, and interstate Under current measures there are
told Pharmacy Daily that the seems to be curbed in most states travellers to be allowed across the no restrictions on travel into or out
organisation was hopeful a deal of Australia, the restrictions set borders with some exceptions. of NSW, Victoria and the ACT, while
would be reached before the by Australia’s federal, state and “This is significant to a lot of 14-day quarantine requirements
30 Jun deadline, noting that territory governments are starting to pharmacies in rural areas needing remain in place for those entering
representatives from the Guild ease, including travel,” the company locum pharmacists, and allows for Tasmania and the Northern
were meeting with the Federal blog said. an increase in availability - as well as Territory.
Department of Health today. “We understand for some, some pharmacists now able to take Interstate health professionals
It is understood the “dollar especially our locum pharmacists, some well-deserved annual leave.” with approval from the CEOs of
discount” is likely to be the travel restrictions have had a Intrastate restrictions have the Departments of Health and
retained in the 7CPA, however significant impact. remained in place for travel Wellbeing in both South Australia
60-day dispensing is not “So, what does this mean for you? to “restricted and remote” and Western Australia, or the
expected to feature. The majority of the states are now communities in Queensland, while Secretary of the Commonwealth
allowing travel within the state Western Australia-based locums Department of Health, will be
looking to work in the Kimberley, exempt from restrictions.
designated biosecurity zones and Meanwhile, Queenslanders who
NCAT erred on suspension overturn remote Aboriginal communities, are travel out of the state for work
required to obtain an entry pass, purposes are currently required to
THE Supreme Court of NSW ruled the Tribunal had erred in its which must be submitted three days apply for an entry pass to return
has ruled that the NSW Civil and application of Section 150 of the prior to travelling to the location. home.
Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) Health Practitioner Regulation
erred in its decision to overturn National Law 2009, that the
the suspension of a pharmacist
who has been accused of sexually
decision to impose conditions
rather than a suspension be set
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assaulting a patient. aside and “the proceedings are
The NCAT set aside the remitted to NCAT, differently View our ePrescribing checklist to
Pharmacy Council of NSW’s constituted, to be determined assess your pharmacy for:
suspension of Hany Samir according to law”.
Ibrahim on the condition that Ibrahim denies the allegations, ePrescribing readiness
he is confined to the dispensary, and affidavits from four
not permitted to interact with colleagues all attested that Software readiness
customers, be employed as a the allegations made against
pharmacist-in-charge or work him were “completely out of Supporting technology
alone in a pharmacy (PD 19 Dec character”, and they were all
2019). confident he could continue to For more information
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Speaking during the PSA Connect profession further. issue of new shares, with
webinar last week, Sim outlined her “With the evidence, not only can majority stakeholder, the
motivations for pursuing a career we enable pharmacists to practice Atkinson Family Trust set to
as an academic, while also owning on an evidence-based approach, divest approximately NZ$3.5
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“Over the last 10 years of my Sim urged students and early generation of pharmacists who can to substantially increase
career as a pharmacist, I feel that career pharmacists looking to actually bring real life examples, the float of AFT shares from
pharmacists do so much every day pursue an academic career to seek and to be able to inspire and approximately 11% to 31%
for the 25 million people who live out mentors who can guide them. bring currency in their knowledge and is expected to provide
in Australia,” she said. She added that the first step to make teaching and research a corresponding increase to
“Pharmacists do great work day-in may require volunteering to take translational. trading liquidity.
day-out, and we have enormous part in a small research project, or “We need clinicians who are The placement will be
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Dispensary Back pharmacy’s quiet achievers
Corner BRITISH pharmacist turned reality
TV star, Anna Vakili, is back behind
in and day-out on the frontline.
“They’re putting themselves at
the dispensary and is using her risk by physically seeing patients,
EVERYONE is looking forward social media clout to pressure the dispensing and delivering millions of
to a holiday after coronavirus UK Government into providing more prescriptions to the most vulnerable
lockdowns are lifted - but support for the profession. people.
overweight travellers need In an video posted on Instagram “I believe that pharmacists and
not try booking at a hotel on on Sun 07 Jun, Vakili, who their staff are the quiet achievers in
Germany’s North Sea. gained celebrity status on the this battle to keep the UK healthy.
The Beachhotel Sahlenburg UK’s Love Island series last year, “On average 1.6 million people
has issued a new policy formally expressed concern for the safety visit a pharmacy every day, and I’m
warning that “for reasons of of pharmacists on the frontline of sure that they would agree that
liability, we would like to point the COVID-19 crisis, and called on these amazing National Health
out that the interior is not Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, and Service workers deserve more “So far five UK pharmacists have
suitable for people with a body Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi recognition and support form the died on the frontline and there’s a
weight of more than 130kg”. Sunak, to back “pharmacy heroes” Government. risk that number could increase.
Apparently the property with appropriate funding and “Last week I was working in a “I’m calling on the Government
prides itself on its “elegant personal protective equipment. pharmacy that had no protective to back our pharmacy heroes with
designer furniture” which is just Having pursued a career as an equipment - I’m just shocked more support.
not strong enough to support influencer, Vakili said she had that several months in so many “I know the Chancellor grew up
heavier weights. returned to the profession in recent pharmacies still don’t have the working in his mum’s pharmacy and
Authorities say they believe weeks to provide support for her protective equipment they need to I know that he values the work that
the anti-obesity policy does not former peers. stay safe. pharmacists do.”
amount to discrimination unless “Since I’ve been back, I’ve been “So many have received a third Vakili warned that the cost
guests are so obese that they amazed by the heroic work that to a quarter of what they were of repaying Government loans
are considered to be disabled. pharmacists are doing,” she said. promised, and they are having to provided during the crisis could put
A BELGIAN doctor aged 103 is “So many of them are working day- rely on customer donations. pharmacies out of business.
doing his bit to help out during
coronavirus, raising funds for
COVID-19 research by walking a
marathon around his garden.
Pharmacists still amongst most trusted SMH apologises
Alfons Leempoels is a retired WHEN it comes to taking in the public’s trust of politicians THE Sydney Morning Herald
GP living near Brussels, and advice during the COVID-19 (up 10 points on the 2019 data to has withdrawn from claims
started his 42.2km trek at the pandemic, the Irish public 32%), with Government Ministers it published on 30 May that
beginning of the month. believes the words of seeing their stock rise by 20 personal protective equipment
Each day he does 10 laps of his pharmacists can be trusted, the points to 47%. sold by Chemist Warehouse
garden, each 145m long - three results of a poll reveal. However, the survey also were “below standard”.
in the morning, three at noon, The research conducted by suggests that members of the The original piece reported
and four just before dinner. international polling group Ipsos public have become less trusting that N95 masks sold by the
He’s following in the footsteps MRBI, in Ireland, found 96% of each other, with a seven point discounter had been tested by
of 100-year-old Briton Tom of respondents believed local drop in the amount of trust an independent firm.
Moore who raised more than pharmacists were trustworthy, people placed in the “ordinary However, on Sat the
£32 million for the UK National putting the profession just person on the street” to 54%. publication issued a correction
Health Service by walking behind nurses (97%). Trust in journalists continued noting “the Herald no longer
around his garden. While surveys taken around its downward trajectory falling accepts that the company
“My children said I can walk at the world have long placed by four points to 42%, while which tested the masks can be
least as well as Tom Moore, and pharmacists amongst the most the utterings of social media described as independent, as it
on top of that I am 103 years trusted professionals, the Irish influencers fell by two points to also sells protective respiratory
old,” he told Reuters. poll showed a significant increase a measly 8%. equipment”.
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