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  Australia could soon be facing a pharmacist shortage as low pay, ballooning workloads and poor career progression drive workers out of the field in droves, according to industry representatives and university researchers. Professional Pharmacists Australia, a union representing pharmacy workers, has raised concerns about the sustainability of the industry after new data revealed pharmacy graduates are the lowest paid in Australia, with a starting salary of just $49,600. "Pharmacists are pretty poorly paid, graduates the worst of the lot," PPA president Geoff March said, adding there ...

A study has revealed who are the worst paid graduates in Australia and the industry has expressed major concerns for its future.

New e-Learn Series for Healthcare Professionals Addresses Disparity Reduction, Management and Identification of Chronic Kidney Disease Share Article A new, interactive e-learn series is now available from Quality Insights and addresses disparity reduction, improved management and early identification of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Quality Insights’ Kidney Care project developed the six-course series – which offers free nursing, physician, pharmacist and dietitian continuing education credits – to accompany the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Chronic Kidney Disease Di...

Press Release – Bay of Plenty District Health Board There are 19 new faces around Tauranga and Whakatāne hospitals this summer thanks to an annual Summer Studentship Programme. The programme, facilitated by the BOP Clinical Campus, gives medical students from across New Zealand an opportunity to study topics in the hospital environment with supervision and support from clinicians. University of Auckland student Andrew Weston is assisting with research into rates of secondary primary malignancy in patients with existing chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. The soon-to-be fifth-year medical studen...

Fixed. it's just how they're going to get there. we have an idea. they didn't ask one teacher back in 2002 when they renamed it no child left behind. if they had just asked us we would have said give us a dashboard of quality indicators. how are kids doing, success indicators, and success is more than one standardized test you give some kid once a year. there are lots of good ways to measure how kids are doing. but what they left behind was what are those opportunities to learn. what's a class size like in your most affluent school and what's it like in your least affluent school. who's got th...