Rhiannon Price, Pharmacist at King Edward Memorial Hospital.[/caption]
Caspar Townsend MPS, Pharmacist at Perth Children's Hospital compounding unit[/caption]
Iraq Doali, NSW-based locum pharmacist and content creator[/caption]
Normalisation is medical misogyny and delays diagnosis
Sharnelle Vella, ABC Radio Melbourne breakfast co-host[/caption]
Mike Stephens, Director, Medicines policy and Programs at the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO)[/caption]
Chastina Heck MPS, Chair of the PSA/NACCHO Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Pharmacy Practice Community of Specialty Interest (CSI).[/caption]
Philippa Chigeza, pharmacist at Logan Hospital.[/caption]
Looking after number one
Self care should be pharmacists' number one priority. Patients’ needs are important, but the wellbeing of pharmacists is integral to the healthcare system.
Free flu campaign in WA to combat triple-virus-threat winter
Throughout the month of May, all West Australians can receive a free influenza vaccination in their local pharmacy.
Case studies show how pharmacists support medicine safety around the world
Pharmacists can promote patient safety at an individual level and also organisational and policy development levels, as case studies in an International Pharmaceutical Federation document released last month show.
Embedding pharmacists in RACFs an investment, not a cost
Theresa Flavin, a 57-year-old mother of five, was diagnosed with dementia at just 46. She says older Australians and those with cognitive dysfunction need a pharmacist ‘on the team’ to promote the quality use of medicines and prevent medicine-related harm.
Pharmacist prescribing the next step in QUM
Pharmacists already have the tools for prescribing and it’s time to unite to bring legislative change, says Professor Lisa Nissen.
QUT’s Prof Nissen said there...
A bitter pill to beat malaria
Quinine’s use in treating malaria is linked to the expansion of European colonisation over the last 400 years.
Quinine is derived from the bark of...
