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Location Rules review panelTHE Pharmacy Guild of Australiahas pledged to work construc velywith the newly cons tutedPharmacy Remunera on andRegula on Review Panel, “onthe basis that they will take anobjec ve and evidence-basedapproach to their task”.
During her speech at lastnight’s Pharmacy Guild AnnualParliamentary Dinner, HealthMinister Sussan Ley announced thethree members of the Panel who
will undertake the review, with twohaving previously expressed strongopposi on to the Loca on Rules.
The panel will be chaired byeconomics professor Stephen King,while the other members will beJo Watson, deputy chair of theConsumer Health Forum (CHF),along with respected Victorianpharmacist Bill Sco .
The Guild issued a statementsaying the CHF has “well knownand frequently espoused viewson community pharmacyregula on, the Loca on Rules and
remunera on of pharmacies,”while Professor King recently statedin an Australian Financial Review ar cle that the Loca on Rules are“an -compe ve and should beremoved”.
“The Guild trusts that thepanellists are not coming to thisReview with pre-determinedposi ons, and that all issues willbe considered on their merits,” theGuild said.
The Review was agreed to during
the Sixth Agreement nego a onsas a means of informing pharmacyremunera on for the nextagreement and addressing anyanomalies around the Loca onRules which are in place un l 2020.
Ley said the review will“undertake a transparent andpublic assessment of the cost-e ec veness of all parts ofremunera on, both to pharmacyand wholesalers, as well as theappropriateness of loca on rules”,repor ng to the government in the
rst half of 2017.
McBeath joins IconICON Consolidated Holdings -
the business which includes EpicPharmacy, Slade Health, Radia onOncology Queensland and IconCancer Care - has announcedthe acquisi on of Sydney-basedMcBeath Health Services.
McBeath supplies hospital andday oncology centres across NSWand ACT with sterile compoundedproducts and pharmacy servicesfrom a TGA licenced facility atNorwest Business Park.
The deal was announced at theIcon Consolidated agm in Brisbane,with chairman Marcus Darvillesaying it “further strengthens ourposi on in the provision of highquality cancer medica on supply inthe NSW hospital market”.
The transac on is expected to bese led in the rst half of 2016.
Labelling changesTHE Therapeu c Goods
Administra on has announcedhat it will update the Australianpproved names of ingredients
used in medicines to be er alignwith interna onal standards,s part of its interna onal
harmonisa on plans.There will be a four year transi oneriod for the changes which isxpected to commence in Apr 2016.While some changes are minorsuch as changing a ‘y’ to ani’ which won’t a ect how thengredient name is pronounced,thers are more signi cant and inhese cases medicine labels wille required to use both the oldnd new ingredient names for anddi onal three years a er the endf the transi on period.The full list of name changes cane viewed at www.tga.gov.au .MEANWHILE the TGA has also
ssued a warning about somehome based” beauty salons which
may be using imported Botox whichhas not been approved for supplywithin Australia.
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Guild welcomes minister to dinner
LAST night’s Pharmacy GuildAnnual Parliamentary Dinner inCanberra ( see p1 ) saw pharmacyindustry stakeholders gatherin the Great Hall of ParliamentHouse, with presenta ons fromsenior MPs including HealthMinister Sussan Ley, opposi onleader Bill Shorten and Greensleader Richard Di Natale.
Pictured above at the eventare, from le : Guild execu vedirector David Quilty; Guildgroup execu ve Engagement andAdvocacy, Ann Dalton; SussanLey; and Guild Na onal PresidentGeorge Tambassis.
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Myeloma approvalTHE US FDA has granted approval
to Ninlaro (ixazomib), made byTakeda, which is the “ rst andonly oral proteasome inhibitor”indicated in combina on withlenalidomide and dexamethasonefor the treatment of pa ents withmul ple myeloma.
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weekly tablet, with the coming justmonths a er Takeda submi ed itsnew drug applica on to the FDA inJul and subsequently being grantedPriority review status “re ec ngthe profound and con nuing unmetneed for new treatments”.
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Aust health complexTHE Australian health care quality
operates “under a complex set ofins tu ons that make coordina ngpa ent care di cult”, accordingto an Organisa on for EconomicCoopera on and Development(OECD) review of the systemreleased last week.
To reduce the fragmenta on, theauthors recommended Australiaadopt a na onal approach.
The authors also called forstrategic development of heatlhservices at the regional level withresponsive innova on to qualityand performance.
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OPPOSITION leader Bill Shortengave guests at last night’sPharmacy Guild of AustraliaAnnual Pharmacy Dinner anamusing pharmacy history lesson.
Shorten reminded thosepresent that “pharmacy is avenerable profession - indeedan ancient one,” with many ofthe clay tablets excavated by
archaeologists in Mesopotamiaover the years being prescrip ons.
Pharmacies in 9th centuryBaghdad were state-regulated,he said, while in ancient Japan“the Emperor’s Pharmacist helda higher rank than the Emperor’stwo physicians - don’t tell the AMA”.
The Labor leader also remindedguests that a pharmacist playsa pivotal role in Shakespeare’sRomeo and Juliet , which hedescribed as “a bit of 17th centuryproduct placement”.
TELLINGyour pa ents to get abreath of fresh seaside air maynot be the best advice, accordingto a new study which warns that“refreshing sea breezes” mayactually contain a toxic cocktail ofpollu on.
The science journal Oceanologia reported on the research whichfound “high levels of hazardousnanopar cles” in coastal airsampled from southern Britain.
The researchers said the
pollu on was likely due to southwesterly winds blowing up frommainland Europe, with thenot-so-cleansing air includinglarge quan es of fuel and otheremissions from ships.
“Other pollutants from land-based factories and cars, as wellas naturally forming chemicalsin the atmosphere merge withthe sea-based par cles to forma deadly cocktail for those livingin coastal areas,” according to areport on the study published in
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