Safety culture vital for reducing hospital dispensing errors

A new study highlights the importance of pharmacists collecting data and identifying why dispensing errors happen in order to significantly reduce how often they occur.

5 ways patients judge your professionalism

Professional behaviour as a component of professionalism can often be seen in how we talk to people, our body language, our communication.

Minimising harm, building trust

Australian Pharmacist of the Year 2017 Irvine Newton OAM FPS was inaugural chairman of PSA’s Harm Minimisation Committee in Victoria.

Data shows pharmacists more distressed in 2020

Between mid-March and late April last year, the Pharmacists’ Support Service received a massive 88% increase in calls from distressed pharmacists compared with the same period in 2019,

Experts recommend 10 ways to prevent medicine-related harm

A group of Australia’s leading medicine safety experts is calling for action to reduce avoidable deaths, hospitalisations and quality-of-life impacts caused by unsafe medicine use.

What is HealthPathways?

Most pharmacists are probably unfamiliar with – or entirely unaware of – HealthPathways. But with local information on hundreds of conditions, it’s essential reading for all primary care roles, including community pharmacists.