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.