Messages from the Medicine Safety Forum
As the custodians of medicine safety, promoting the judicious, quality and safe use of medicines is key to pharmacists’ roles. But it is also...
Medicine safety – the importance of health literacy
Communication is key to ensuring patient health literacy.
Electronic prescribing
Ultimately, it took the COVID-19 pandemic to crystallise the immediate medicine safety and public health imperative for electronic prescriptions.
Getting ready for bushfire season
This time last year, fires were raging across the country at warp speed. Before fire season strikes again, pharmacists would benefit from having some preventative measures in place.
On-site improvements
Pharmacists in aged care facilities are optimising medicines management – and changing the lives of residents
New guidelines establish safe opioid deprescribing practices
Creating a tailored, individualised approach is the key to helping patients safely deprescribe from opioids.
