Better use of existing funding, leveraging digital health and empowering consumers are the keys to improving medicine safety.
These were the main themes to come out of discussions at the Medicine Safety Forum held in Canberra on Monday.
Convened by the...
For Bradley Butt MPS at his Cooleman Court Pharmacy in Canberra, dispensing robots and automation are just tools that help him focus on delivering award-winning pharmacy services to patients.
I am enormously proud of how our work has contributed to medicine safety and the quality use of medicines finally receiving the attention it warrants.
A small rural hospital in southern Queensland has introduced a new model of pharmacy practice. Hopefully, it will lead to reduced medicine-related hospital admissions.
A new model of pharmacy practice is being developed at a small rural hospital in...
How do I comply with My Health Record guidelines when accessing a patient’s MHR to review a discharge summary?
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 got,’ Ms Lacy said of the support she received after publishing her blog Finding My...
The move to electronic prescribing is the ‘biggest process change in medicine supply since computers were introduced in pharmacy in the 1980s’.
Most Australian GPs have used a placebo in practice at least once, with active placebos used far more than inert placebos, a new study has found.
Published this week in the Australian Journal of General Practice,1 the results of a...
More than 62,000 hospital admissions for heart failure in Australia could have been prevented and more than 400,000 bed days avoided, according to new data released last week from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).1
That equates to,...
Evaluation overseas has found pharmacist prescribing to be safe, clinically appropriate and well-received by patients.
Pharmacy groups have long called for changes to allow pharmacists to prescribe specified medicines such as the oral contraceptive pill.
In countries where this extension to...
