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Nicholls retires
SIGMA Pharmaceucals non-execuve director Linda Nicholls
AO has announced her rerement
eecve yesterday.
Nicholls was also chair of Sigma’s
Risk Management and Audit
Commiee.
Cannabis for epilepsy
MEDICINAL cannabis may be a promising treatment for children
nd young adults with treatment
esistant epilepsy and it is generally
well-tolerated in doses up to 25mg/
kg/day, according to a preliminary
tudy presented to the annual
meeng of the American Epilepsy
ociety this week.
The authors concluded that these
nial results from an uncontrolled
tudy should now be further tested
n randomised controlled trials.
CLICK HERE for the abstract.
ASMI 2016 conferenceLE MONTAGE at Lilyeld, Sydney
is the venue for the 2016 Australian
Self Medicaon Industry (ASMI)
AGM, Annual Conference and
Diamond Awards which will be held
on 27 Oct 2016.
The Diamond Awards night,
designed to honour manufacturers
and suppliers who excel in the
markeng of their products, will
be full of pizazz next year, ASMI
promises - see asmi.com.au.
More scripts, less spendingSPENDING growth onpharmaceucals in
Australia has
slowed despite an increasing
number of prescripons dispensed,
according to a new Australian
Instute of Health and Welfare
report released this morning.
The Health Expenditure 2013-14
analysis breaks down spending by
sector, and shows $58.8 billion in
recurrent spending on hospitals,
$54.7 billion on primary health
care, and $32 billion on “other
health goods and services”.
During 2013-14 the growth in
“benet-paid pharmaceucals” was
just 1% in real terms, compared
with a 6.3% increase in the number
of prescripons dispensed - the
highest in the previous ten years.
“This suggests that slower growth
in both government and non-
government spending in this area
did not mean fewer services were
delivered,” said AIHW spokesman
Adrian Webster.
Between 2004 and 2014 thenumber of prescripons dispensed
rose 26.6%, the report says, with
other interesng gures including
the revelaon that spending on “all
other medicaons” which includes
OTC pharmaceucals, private
scripts and under-copayment
medicaons was $9.7 billion,
almost all of which was paid for by
individuals out-of-pocket.
Benet-paid pharmaceucals
accounted for $10.1b in spending,
of which $8.5b was govt-funded.
To view the full report online see
www.aihw.gov.au.
THE NSW branch of
he Pharmacy Guild of
Australia held its annual
Christmas celebraons
arlier this week,
t a stunning venue
overlooking the Sydney
Opera House and
arbour.
Joined by governmentepresentaves, service
providers, suppliers
nd community
pharmacists, the event celebrated
he success of the Guild’s many
niaves, including the Know
Your Numbers Program, which
president Paul Sinclair said
had “exceeded beyond original
expectaons”.
Pictured above from le is
Pharmacy Guild president Paul
Sinclair with Dr John D’Arcy and
friendly pharmacist John Bell.
Guild Christmas celebrations
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