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

Low vitamin D is an important public health issue and is common in Tasmania. In summer around one third of Tasmanian teens and adults do not have enough vitamin D (blood levels less than 50 nmol/L) and in winter and spring this increases to around two thirds.

Find out information about our plan to improve heart health outcomes in Tasmania.

A new GP NOW Rapid Response Team is recruiting from today, 13 July, with job advertisements live.

This month is “April No Falls”, which is an international campaign that aims to encourage us to recognise the risks that falls pose and to highlight the importance of prevention, particularly for older people.

Public Health Services today released the results of the 2022 Tasmanian Population Health Survey (TPHS).

Danger: Do not consume large amounts of raw poppy seeds such as home-made poppy seed tea.

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.