News

Published on 18 Jul 2008

APHS jumping in the channel for charity

This Sunday, the staff and management of APHS will be donning their flippers to raise $5000 for sick children.
Inspired by John ‘Jammo’ Jameson’s desire to swim the English Channel for charity, APHS has thrown their support behind his goal to raise $250 000 for the Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation. In recognition of this incredible commitment [...]

Published on 08 May 2008

HealthVax acquired and enjoys tender Success!

Influenza doesn’t recognise State borders, so we are delighted to announce that APHS through its Home Therapeutics brand recently acquired the HealthVax business under which our vaccination business will expand nationally. HealthVax, an established Victorian brand, gives us a strong base from which to market our vaccination services to the Southern States.
The first early success [...]

Published on 08 May 2008

Short Circuit reach growing

Short CIRCUIT, the ebulletin companion to our clinical newsletter, CIRCUIT, continues to be popular with over 4,000 bulletins being read by our subscribers in 2007.
Our two most recent bulletins both covered safety concerns surrounding Aprotinin (Trasylol). Short CIRCUIT again proved an excellent communication tool as part of our complete communication strategy, reinforcing information which had [...]

Published on 07 May 2008

Northern NSW base established

Residents of Lismore and the surrounding area requiring Hospital, Oncology and Aged Care pharmacy have looked no further than Tom Gordon and his group of pharmacies for many years. Tom has been a good friend and respected colleague of APHS for many years and given the parallels in our respective areas of operation it was [...]

Published on 01 May 2008

APHS launches new web site

Welcome to the new APHS website and thank you for visiting us. We’ve designed the site to be more interactive and tried to make it easier for you to find out the information you need.
We look forward to getting to know you.

Published on 29 Apr 2008

Advisory Board update

The APHS Advisory Board held its inaugural meeting over the Australian Pharmacy Professional Conference (APP) weekend on the Gold Coast in March. The new Board which will oversee the long term strategy and direction of APHS and provide Governance began with an overview of the business and coming challenges and opportunities.

Published on 29 Apr 2008

A.C.E. popularity grows

As proof of the success of A.C.E., APHS Consults’ on-line medication education system, over 100 subscribers are now regularly logging in and downloading modules. Of these several keen users have already completed all eight modules currently available. Congratulations to Wendy Riley of Blue Care Bayhaven, Hervey Bay who was our very first user to complete [...]