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...
Real-time update
Real-time prescription monitoring (RTPM) is gaining momentum and now operates across large swathes of Australia. What does it mean for pharmacists?
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.
Opinion: hospital pharmacists can support improved transitions into aged care
The latest medicine safety report from the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA), Medicine Safety: Aged Care, shines a light on problems with the safety...
Vale Dr Ross William Holland AM FPS
Pharmacy has lost one of its true servants and innovators with the passing of Dr Ross Holland (6 May 1938 – 16 May 2025).
Are unconscious gender biases widening the Australian gender pain gap?
Pain is a highly complex and subjective phenomenon, characterised by high levels of inter-individual variability.1,2 This can make it difficult to quantify and compare...













