‘We’re increasingly seeing incidents where alert fatigue has been identified as a contributing factor. It’s not that there wasn’t an alert in place, but that it was lost among the other alerts the clinician saw,’ Prof Baysari says.
Digital first
Andrew Matthews MPS is the Australian Digital Health Agency’s Director of Medicines Safety. In that role, he hopes to ensure pharmacists are fundamental to healthcare’s digital future.
Expert advice for navigating R U OK? conversations
R U OK? Day (14 September) provides the perfect opportunity for pharmacists to check how patients are coping.
Supporting terminally ill patients
Having an easily-accessible palliative care pharmacist in every community would improve medicine management for terminally ill Australians, said Helen Stone MPS, PSA State and Territory Manager South Australia and Northern Territory.
Consumers want to see pharmacy services expand
Consumers desire greater specialisation and increased services from the pharmacy profession, which should be front of mind in community pharmacy practice.
Consumer input into pharmacy...
2020: an unprecedented year in review
With a ferocious bushfire season that ravaged much of the country followed by the COVID-19 pandemic – pharmacists were on the frontline every step of the way.
Pharmacy in a busy hospital setting
Michael Bakker MPS is an ECP on the move. He’s a pharmacist team leader at SA Health’s Flinders Medical Centre, and volunteers with Parkinson’s SA.
