COVID-19 medicines home delivery services

With stricter social distancing measures in place and more Australians, particularly the elderly, choosing to remain at home due to COVID-19, many community pharmacies have had increased demand for home delivery.

New guidelines allow complex compounding

Simple compounding has long been a part of pharmacists’ scope of practice, but new guidelines have opened up the potential for complex compounding. For some patients,...

Influenza vaccines: what pharmacists need to know for 2022

After 2 years of low influenza rates due to COVID-19, the 2022 flu season is unpredictable, and could be a whopper. Here are six things you need to know.

Tasmanian pharmacists forge on as hospitals shut amid Stage 4 COVID-19...

As hospitals and all non-essential businesses in Burnie on Tasmania’s north-west coast shut down to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, pharmacists are feeling the pressure – but finding ways to carry on.

So you want to be a pharmacist prescriber?

This state just made pharmacist prescribing permanent, with others to follow. Here's what pharmacists need to know to embrace this new role.

Laudanum – a panacea for all human woes?

Laudanum’s use, and abuse, has set the tone for the use and abuse of opiates from the 17th century until the present day. From...