MEDICAL POLICY – NEW SOUTH WALES

‘Medicinal cannabis use should be approved now’

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Original article by James Robertson
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: 9 : 2-Feb-15

The 2014 "Victorian of the Year", Melbourne University emeritus professor David Penington, has argued in an article published in the "Medical Journal of Australia" that medicinal cannabis use should be made legal now. He points to the fact that other nations and 23 US states have already taken that step. Penington also criticises a planned clinical trial of the drug in New South Wales, as it will give a control group of patients with severe pain only a placebo

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UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, THE GREENS NSW INCORPORATED

Pharmacists’ push to immunise children fought by doctors

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Original article by Amy Corderoy
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: 13 : 5-Dec-14

Saxon Smith, president of the Australian Medical Association’s New South Wales (NSW) branch, says it will lobby fiercely against any move to allow pharmacists to carry out more vaccinations. The NSW branch director of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, Steven Drew, had claimed that such a proposal had been given in-principle support by State Health Minister Jillian Skinner. However the Government and pharmacists remain at loggerheads over the extent of qualifications needed in order to offer the service. It has been successfully trialled in Queensland

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AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (NSW) LIMITED, NEW SOUTH WALES. MINISTRY OF HEALTH, PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA (NEW SOUTH WALES BRANCH) LIMITED

Medicinal use of cannabis on agenda

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Original article by Anna Patty
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: 7 : 17-Nov-14

The New South Wales (NSW) Government is funding a symposium to be staged in Tamworth on 21-22 November 2014, on the legal medicinal use of cannabis for cancer sufferers and terminally ill patients. A potential trial of such an approach has the backing of both NSW Premier Mike Baird, who will open the Tamworth event, and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. No Australian Medical Association representative will attend the symposium

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AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION LIMITED, NEW SOUTH WALES. DEPT OF PREMIER AND CABINET, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET, NATIONAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA