How PSA’s 2021 joint Lifetime Achievement Award recipients led the way
Over a combined 103 years, the joint recipients of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Valerie Constable and the late John Ware, helped progress the pharmacy profession for the next generation.
Advances in understanding obesity
Traditional health advice about this global epidemic emphasises behavioural change above all while failing to recognise obesity as a disease.
Maintaining standards
The PSA’s WA Pharmacist of the Year Richard Smirk serves as the Clinical Advisor Pharmacy at the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) in Perth.
Psychotropic medicines in the spotlight in Aged Care Royal Commission
As interviews for the Aged Care Royal Commission continue, medical experts have voiced concerns about the overuse of psychotropics as medical restraints in aged...
PSA25: the place to be!
The PSA25 social calendar is always jam packed. And this year, at the biggest national conference yet, certainly didn’t disappoint.



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High-quality medicines reconciliation should ideally occur in the emergency department or soon after admission to the ward.
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