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Opposition won’t support 60-day dispensing policy that allows patients to buy two months of medicine for price of one over concerns community pharmacies will be forced to close

Documents obtained by Crikey show how much time the medical regulator’s staff spent responding to Gerard Rennick.

The Australian government’s cyber experts were not consulted on the awarding of a $23 million grant to a peak body without tender to train thousands of “cyber wardens”, while Treasury is yet to explain how it managed any conflicts of interest. In the May Budget the Albanese government allocated $23.4…

Shadow minister says leak of ‘sensitive’ information after research into the Optus and Medibank hacks was ‘deeply ironic’

VEEV nicotine pods and devices offered at an 80% margin on the condition pharmacies sign supply deal with the tobacco giant

Pharmacies will be paid thousands more to dispense medicines from July 1 as part of a government funding boost.

Audit committee calls for crackdown on politicised funding schemes following controversy over urban congestion and building better regions funds

Newborns will be tested for a wider range of rare health conditions in a promised overhaul that also seeks to iron out differences in screening between states.

Earlier this year, federal health minister Mark Butler announced a new national Lung Cancer Screening Program. The first of its kind for lung cancer, the screening program will open initially to current and former smokers aged 50 to 70 years by July 2025. It aims to save lives by detecting…

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