NSW Minister for Health Ryan Park with PSA NSW Branch President Luke Kelly FPS[/caption]
[post_title] => Pharmacy prescribing trial expands to include skin conditions
[post_excerpt] => With New South Wales recently expanding its pharmacy prescribing trial to include skin conditions, could other jurisdictions soon follow?
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Crippling adverse effects
Medicine changes
Too much prescribing
Nick Logan MPS[/caption]
Sydney-based community pharmacy Nick Logan Pharmacist Advice supplies clozapine to 70 patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia. Servicing this ‘disproportionately large’ cohort of patients is due to strong ties with the Assertive Outreach team at nearby Royal North Shore Hospital, says owner Nick Logan MPS.
Mr Logan describes clozapine as a ‘fabulous drug’ that has low extrapyramidal adverse effects, including less akathisia, tremor and little-to-no dystonia or rigidity.
Wherever medicines are used there is a risk of medicine misadventure, said PSA National President Dr Fei Sim FPS.
‘This is about ensuring patients have the support they need to get the most out of their medicines safely and effectively,’ said Dr Sim.
Case Scenario
Melissa, 38, recently had some progesterone pessaries dispensed at your pharmacy. She tells you she won’t need a repeat as her in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) cycle was unsuccessful. Melissa becomes teary as she explains that she will need to start a frozen egg (oocyte) cycle, as the first fresh transfer did not result in a pregnancy. She says she wasn’t really listening when they informed her about what would happen if the first transfer wasn’t successful, as she was so hopeful it would work the first time. She asks what medicines she can expect this time.
Learning ObjectivesAfter reading this article, pharmacists should be able to:
Competency (2016) standards addressed: 1.1, 1.4, 1.5, 2.2, 3.1, 3.5 |
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