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.

Heading off patient harm from medicines

Medicine adherence, deprescribing and establishing systems to prevent error recurrence are all part of the pharmacist’s calling to protect patient safety. Pharmacists, as custodians of...

Crushing and dispersing medicines

Healthcare professionals do not often discuss swallowing difficulties, particularly a patient’s ability to swallow solid oral dosage forms. Learning objectives After reading this article, pharmacists...

Fostering cultural safety

There are a few simple techniques that can go a long way toward making transgender and gender-diverse patients, as well as all LGBTQIA+ people, feel welcome and respected.

Case study: Getting to the bottom of Rosa’s sleep problems

Allergic rhinitis (AR), commonly known as hayfever, affects around 19% of Australians. This case study explores how it impacts sleep quality.

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.