A pharmacist immuniser in the Apple Isle

Tasmanian pharmacist Christine White MPS has embraced immunisation in pharmacy, despite her own early hesitancy, and now considers the benefits ‘immense’.

Making medicine safety a National Health Priority Area

The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia’s (PSA) two recently released reports, Pharmacists in 2023 and Medicine Safety: Take Care, both identify the need for medicine...

The policymaker

Karen Castle MPS, PSA’s newest policy pharmacist, writes healthcare legislation and knows plenty about voluntary assisted dying requirements.

Night moves

Dimitra Tsucalas FPS, co-owner of Ascot Vale Supercare Pharmacy, has seen it all. From late-night triage, shift workers, opioid seekers and everything in between,...

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.

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,