When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Australia, pharmacies were even busier than supermarkets.
Bernadette Cappello MPS has gone from community pharmacy, through the federal Department of Health to the World Health Organization in Geneva.
A significant milestone has been reached in pharmacy, with Australia’s first genuine and legally valid electronic prescription (e-prescription) created, stored and dispensed in Victoria last week.
Two experts set out how to deal with patient and pharmacist anxiety over myriad recent changes.
A new study found people who smoke are 1.4 times more likely to have severe symptoms of COVID-19 and about 2.4 times more likely to be admitted to an intensive care unit, need mechanical ventilation or die compared to non-smokers.
With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, working as a consultant pharmacist in residential aged care facilities (RACFs) suddenly became a professional challenge for Melbourne’s Neil Petrie MPS.
Airport pharmacists-in-charge, like Andrew Lieu MPS, were initially frontline defence.
Aggressive consumers wanting quantities of ‘just in case’ medicines amid COVID-19 panic has added considerably to workplace stress.
COVID-19 has fostered an even closer relationship between the pharmacy and wards of the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
It’s 10 am at Scott-Dibben Chemist in Newcastle, New South Wales, and emails of prescriptions are already pinging into the inbox.
