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.

$10,000 gender pay gap between early career pharmacists

Male pharmacy graduates earn an average $10,000 more than their female counterparts after three years on the job, a new report has shown. Although female...

Overcoming unconscious gender bias in women’s health

How pharmacists can overcome their own unconsciously dismissive bias of women’s health concerns by asking the right questions.

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.

Pharmacists on the front line: Approaches to mental illness

Australia’s run of catastrophic summer bushfires followed by the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a grim toll on the nation’s mental health.