Hannah Knowles MPS with David Batt MP, Member for Hinkler (Qld)[/caption]
Anna Theophilos MPS with David Batt MP, Member for Hinkler (Qld)[/caption]
Drawing on 17 years’ experience, Theophilos highlighted the breadth of community pharmacy services she provides, anchored by immunisation.
Using her ‘spin-to-win’ wheel, Anna highlighted the inequity experienced by patients across Australia, with regulations preventing pharmacist immunisers being able to fully support the immunisation needs of the communities they serve.
“I hope they can see it’s common sense that all pharmacists, regardless of where you practice, can vaccinate according to the Australian Immunisation Handbook. All Australians deserve the same access to vaccinations regardless of where they live.
Long COVID: managing the after-effects
Some people who are infected with COVID-19 do not recover quickly. They live with the aftermath – long COVID – a multi-system condition that we must start learning how to manage, including pharmacists.
Travel health: ready for take-off
Turning informal advice into a structured consultation service: pharmacy-based travel health services take flight.
Opinion: hospital pharmacists can support improved transitions into aged care
The latest medicine safety report from the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA), Medicine Safety: Aged Care, shines a light on problems with the safety...
Improving access to HMRs post-cardiac event
Delayed access to Home Medicines Reviews is putting patients hospitalised for cardiac events at risk of another event.
Compounding hazardous medicines
Hazardous medicines play an important role in healthcare, offering treatment for diverse diseases and conditions, such as cancer or the prevention of transplant rejection.
Champion of change for Early Career Pharmacists
Deanna Mill MPS, a PhD candidate and PSA’s Early Career Pharmacist Board Appointed Director, is passionate about promoting professionalism in pharmacy practice.
