News and alerts

Read about Pharmacy/medicines and poisons regulation- Notification of Forged Electronic Prescriptions

Results from the Human Health Risk Assessment of the Rocherlea Industrial Area, commissioned by the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) and the Department of Health, have been released showing there has been no evidence of harm to the community.

Current Shellfish warnings

A health alert for floods and your health from the Department of Health (Tasmania).

Read about the Department of Health's ongoing commitment to significantly improve the culture across Health in Tasmania so that children and young people in our care feel safe, supported and empowered.

A media release from the Chief Medical Officer.

Read about community forums for those in the Northern Tasmanian community affected by the Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government’s Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings (CoI) in relation to the Launceston General Hospital. 

A health alert for Derwent Estuary fish limits and your health from the Department of Health (Tasmania).

Read about the move to electronically transmitted prescriptions, Poisons List amendments and more in the December 2020 Pharmaceutical Services Branch newsletter.

Read about the impacts of COVID-19, Poisons List amendments and more in the March 2020 Pharmaceutical Services Branch newsletter.

Read about Tasmanian Opioid Pharmacotherapy Program requirements, electronic transmission of prescriptions and more in the December 2019 Pharmaceutical Services Branch newsletter.

Read about poisons legislation amendments, fentanyl prescribing, the keeping of records for narcotic substances and more in the December 2018 Pharmaceutical Services Branch newsletter.

Read about Codeine Scheduling Changes in the January 2018 Pharmaceutical Services Branch newsletter.

Read about supply by pharmacists of Schedule 4 or Schedule 8 substances without a (hard copy) prescription in the July 2016 Pharmaceutical Services Branch newsletter.