Medicine safety will be improved through empowering consumers and a combination of practice, policy and research initiatives.
More than 200,000 Australians currently live in aged care and the number grows each day. Optimising medicine safety is a crucial concern.
Mental health and substance use disorders are among the five leading causes of disease burden in Australia. What role can pharmacists play?
It took Bria Lacy five years to ‘find her voice’ but when she did, it was heard.
I was not expecting the overwhelming response I...
The move to electronic prescribing is the ‘biggest process change in medicine supply since computers were introduced in pharmacy in the 1980s’.
The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has heard clear calls for pharmacists, as a priority, to spend more time on the...
It is difficult to overstate the importance of the present and potential future role of the pharmacist in the day-to-day health care of most...
A new PSA report describes the digital future of Australian health care, a ‘new normal’ with pharmacists front and centre, equipped with more information...
In its landmark Medicine Safety: Take Care report, PSA identified the frightening cost of medicine misadventure in Australia. With medicines safety a central theme...
Any evidence-based vision of an efficient, patient-centred primary healthcare system places pharmacists in essential roles front and centre.
The future of global health care...
