Australian Pharmacist

Missed medicine doses are common in practice, with potentially serious consequences for patient health, particularly when it comes to time-critical medicines.

For the fifth year in a row, more than 2,000 Australians lost their lives to overdose in 2018, according to Australia’s Annual Overdose Report 2020 from Penington Institute.

Medical and cosmetic treatments, luminescent devices, even sex aids soon hit the market after the discovery of radium.

Kerry Schiemer MPS has been a proud pharmacist for more than 60 years. Set to retire next month, he reflects on the best parts of pharmacy practice and why patient-centred care is so important.

Since Christmas, the NSW south coast, East Gippsland, the Hume region and Portland in Victoria and Kangaroo Island off South Australia have been devastated...

Preceptors and supervising pharmacists are responsible for making decisions about the ability of pharmacy interns to complete tasks independently as they progress through the supervised practice period.