‘We’re increasingly seeing incidents where alert fatigue has been identified as a contributing factor. It’s not that there wasn’t an alert in place, but that it was lost among the other alerts the clinician saw,’ Prof Baysari says.
Images of holidaymakers being evacuated by Navy ship as bushfires closed in on Mallacoota have made the Victorian coastal town a global symbol of the unprecedented nature of the bushfire crisis.
In the lead-up to New Year’s Eve, up to...
P2 masks have been made available to vulnerable people for free from every ACT community pharmacy as part of a unified effort to confront the region’s worst-ever air quality.
The PSA and the Pharmacy Guild of Australia joined forces with...
It was a big year for Australian pharmacists, with the release of important reports calling for reform for the profession and providing a vision for the next four years. The year ended on a high note with the Federal...
As 2019 draws to a close, seven pharmacists from around the country reflect on the year that was, and look to what 2020 has in store.
Lauren Burton MPS, Western Australia
Hospital pharmacist and PSA Early Career Pharmacist (ECP) Director
What’s the...
As the custodians of medicine safety, promoting the judicious, quality and safe use of medicines is key to pharmacists’ roles. But it is also important to work with other health professionals to improve outcomes for all Australians.
At the Medicine...
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?
