The Guild Dispensary

We’re bringing you a helpful and timely session that was presented at a recent PBCN webinar about making sure your pharmacy is prepared for tax season.

Emma Brown, Principle at RSM, helps simplify and demystify tax processes to help you maximise returns. 

Among a myriad of helpful tips and tricks for tax time, Emma covers areas of focus for the Tax Office so you can maintain compliance and take advantage of available concessions. Emma also covers some of the implications of 60-day dispensing.

The pharmacy team at RSM understand pharmacy business, having worked with hundreds of pharmacy owners to ensure they achieve industry benchmarks. In this episode, let Emma’s expertise guide your efforts as you prepare for June 30.

To hear the full PBCN webinar recording and view the slide presentation to go with it, visit the Guild’s website. The full presentation includes sessions from Sharlene Wellard, from Meridian Lawyers, and Belinda Hegarty and Ben Massey, from Commbank Health. There’s a link for that in the show notes at https://www.guild.org.au/news-events/events/2023/pbcn-webinar-preparing-your-pharmacy-for-eofy

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When it comes to people management, there might be nothing worse than turning a blind eye and hoping the problem will ‘just go away.’

Our guest today, James Judge, provides practical tools, advice and solutions to address the more ‘curly’ challenges that can arise with staff, in the workplace.

James is an experienced people manager, and director of a consultancy aimed at helping businesses and organisations build stronger teams. He’s very well placed to share some of the tools from his toolkit, to help you, listeners, gain a little more confidence when it comes to doing just that.

In today’s episode, we look at some of the most common workplace issues, emerging trends and most importantly, how to nip the most common workplace issues in the bud, so you can keep yourself – and your staff – in the best shape possible for your business to thrive.

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Taking over a small, old pharmacy in a town of just 1,000 people might seem like a challenge, but it’s a challenge that Alexander and Nicholas, at Ouyen Pharmacy, decided to take on.

Together, these two early career pharmacists managed to completely turn the pharmacy around, turning it from a business focused on giftware to a flourishing healthcare hub greatly benefiting the community.

As a finalist for ‘Pharmacy of the Year’, Ouyen Pharmacy took home a special award for the significant work they had done to reinvigorate their pharmacy within only two years of ownership.

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Community Pharmacy faces significant workforce challenges, with no quick fix in sight.

How can Community Pharmacy adapt to deal with these challenges?

For this PBCN podcast episode, we’re bringing you a session that was held at the Australian Pharmacy Professionals’ conference at the Gold Coast from the 23rd to the 26th of March, 2023.

In this session, Helen O’Byrne, Pharmacy Guild National Councillor,  looked at some of the key issues that are likely to shape the future workforce of pharmacy.

Key influences in the future workforce include our university sector and the structure of the pharmacy degree, remuneration levels for pharmacists, pharmacy viability via Community Pharmacy Agreement remuneration, the capacity that pharmacists practice at full scope and its associated remuneration, and the degree to which enablers – like IT service provides, for example - assist pharmacy operations.

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Going from being a pharmacy struggling to stay afloat and at risk of shutting down, to turning everything around and becoming a pharmacy recognised for its excellence, Pharmacy 777, in Shoalwater, took home the title of Pharmacy of the Year at this year’s APP conference.

Pharmacy 777 also became the category winner for ‘Excellence in Community Engagement’. From Christmas parties, naming competitions, easter egg hunts, casual chats, and even birthday visits - the team at Pharmacy 777 has consistently shown that community comes first.

Hear firsthand from Sam Afsar, one of the proprietors of Pharmacy 777. Sam talks about the strategies and practices that helped turn the tide, create meaningful relationships with their patients and fellow healthcare practitioners, and become an integral part of the community it serves.

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This episode comes to you from the Australian Pharmacy Professional Conference, which was held on the Gold Coast from the 23rd to the 26th of March 2023. APP is the largest pharmacy conference in the southern hemisphere with – well normally - up to 6000 delegates attending. But this year a new record was set, with 7471 registered attendees!

Minister for Health and Aged Care, the Honourable Mark Butler, and Shadow Minister for Health and Aged Care, Senator the Honourable Anne Ruston, our representatives in Parliament, attended APP to speak with the pharmacy workforce.  

We took the opportunity for our National President, Professor Trent Twomey, to sit down with them and find out more about what they think needs to happen as we move into the 8th Community Pharmacy Agreement. And, of course, we are so glad to have made the time to get to know them a bit better.

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When you hear the word ‘dietitian’, the first thing you might think about is weight loss management. What dietitians actually do, however, and the role they play in the healthcare sector, might surprise you!

This week is Dietitians Week, a week where we spread awareness about what it is dietitians do and how they improve our lives.

In this episode, Tara Diversi, President of Dietitians Australia, explains the work of dieticians. From supporting mental health, minimising side effects from medications, and managing disease, dietitians play an important role in Australian healthcare.

After this episode, you might see dietitians through a new lens.

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The Guild Digest is one of the Guild’s priority deliverables for the year, and as this episode goes live, so does the 2023 Guild Digest survey.

In 2022, a very special edition of the Digest was published to celebrate 50 years of data-driven insights. This special edition saw the biggest sample size yet.

For this episode, we speak with Anthony Tassone, the National Vice President – Health Economics and Policy.  Anthony is also the Victorian Branch President.

With Anthony, we get into some detail about the Digest, looking at what’s in it, how to use it, and perhaps most importantly, why it’s so important to participate.

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This is a recording of a session that was hosted at the 2022 Tasmanian Pharmacy Conference. This conference focused on the potential for community pharmacists to work to their full professional scope in our current rapidly changing environment.

When owning a business, unexpected events may throw you for a loop and have devastating impacts. But what if you expect the unexpected?

In this episode, Sarah Stoddart, Founder and Director of Vitality Law Australia, talks about how to mitigate the impacts of unexpected events by encouraging you to think ahead and explore what you can do right now to minimize risk to your business in the future.

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This episode is an important one for anyone undergoing a significant life change or managing those who are. Whether it’s yourself, your colleagues, or your employees, this episode will provide valuable information to help you navigate the change, and all that comes with it.

Vanessa Miles, a psychologist and senior consultant at Transitioning Well, and Georgie Chapman, employment lawyer and partner at HR Legal, join us to venture into the frameworks and requirements that need to be in place to support employees during one of life’s major transitions, parenthood, as well as what you can do to make sure you and your employees are prepared.

Transitioning Well is a national team of psychologists working with Australian companies to help employees manage the messy intersections between life and work. Transitioning Well supports those experiencing any kind of significant life change, however that might look.

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