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.

On the right page

For Dr Amy Page FPS, it’s the challenge of building something new that has made her career to date so rewarding.

Prescribing pioneer

One of Australia’s first pharmacist prescribers, Therese Lambert MPS is on the lookout for ways to help pharmacists fill healthcare gaps.

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.

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.

Migraine and tension-type headache

Case scenario Chau, a 23-year-old female, requests 'something strong for migraine'. She tells you she is developing a headache, has sensitivity to light and awful...