A pop-up pharmacy clinic offering screening services after breakfast[/caption]
Loneliness and the pharmacist advocate
Enforced isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly increased the level of loneliness in Australia.
Pharmacists have skills to help with COVID-19 vaccine roll-out
The range of vaccines trained pharmacist immunisers can administer should be expanded in order to protect the community, PSA has argued in its 2021–22 Pre-Budget Submission to the Victorian Government.
The Great Pox
From 1493 onwards, everyone who was anyone caught syphilis. Ivan the Terrible, Henry VIII, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gauguin, Keats, Oscar Wilde, Beethoven, Manet and Al Capone all allegedly picked up the disease. Given that the ‘Great Pox’ was a known venereal disorder, it is no surprise Casanova also made the ever-growing list.
$11.7 million investment for pharmacist-led medicine safety initiatives
Pharmacists will receive $11.7 million in funding for research into medicines safety and the quality use of medicines.
Accredited pharmacists come together at inaugural CPC23 conference
Accredited pharmacists have been thrown a lifeline after expiry of provider numbers was postponed until the new APC standards are finalised.
COVID-19 healthcare leader moves into new role
Deputy Chief Medical Officer Professor Michael Kidd AO reflects on steering Australia through the COVID-19 pandemic and his next career move.
