We’ve already heard buckets of criticism of the deal between the Pharmacy Guild and Blackmores, which would have seen pharmacists prompted to promote Blackmores products as “companions” to certain popular medications. In the article below (first published in Medical Observer), Dr Ken Harvey, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health at La Trobe University, looks [...]
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Some reaction to the news on the Pharmacy Guild and Blackmores
Some pithy comments have already landed on the previous post covering the canning of the controversial deal between the Pharmacy Guild and Blackmores, which would have seen pharmacists prompted to promote Blackmores products as “companions” to certain popular medications. Here is some more reaction: from Dr Ken Harvey, the National Prescribing Service and Senator Richard [...]
READ MOREPharmacy Guild deal with Blackmores ends in tears
Some extremely interesting conversations must have been occurring behind closed doors in pharmacy-land, in the wake of the disastrous deal between the Pharmacy Guild and Blackmores. According to a Guild statement reproduced in full below, the deal – for pharmacists’ computer systems to prompt them to discuss Blackmores products with patients picking up a prescription [...]
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Some searing critique of the health system from John Menadue and others at the national rural health conference
Two particularly searing critiques of the health sector were given yesterday on the final day of the national rural health conference in Perth. John Menadue, of the Centre for Policy Development, titled his paper, “Beating the hospital obsession; the key to rural health reform is in primary care”. (Update: you can now watch his presentation [...]
READ MOREJohn Menadue’s sizzling critique of politics, the media and more
Thanks to the many Croakey readers and contributors who came along to the New News conference in Melbourne last week, to discuss the opportunities of the digital revolution for supporting a healthier public debate. It was good to see you there and from Croakey’s perspective, it was a reminder of how the Internet can be [...]
READ MOREA comic tale involving the AMA, the Pharmacy Guild (and no superheroes)…
KAPOW! WHAM! BAM! That, dear reader, is the comic book image that springs to mind* while observing the recent collision of two of the most powerful lobby groups in the health and medical industry. The AMA took on the Pharmacy Guild with this swift upper cut, calling for doctors to be allowed to own and [...]
READ MOREA who’s who of lobbyists in health
There’s an interesting analysis at Crikey today about the implications of Dr Andrew Pesce’s election as AMA president. I wish I’d read it before giving a talk to health policy students at the ANU yesterday about lobby groups in health. Of course, you always end up preparing for these things at the last moment, generally [...]
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