2019 year in review

It was a big year for Australian pharmacists, with the release of important reports calling for reform for the profession and providing a vision...

NSW pharmacists given special authority to supply essential medicines

NSW has granted pharmacists a landmark special authority to supply most S4 medicines without a prescription to those affected by bushfires. The NSW Chief Health...

Pharmacists need support to deliver drug and alcohol treatment

A new report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) has revealed the burden of drug and alcohol use in rural and...

Government commits $25m to medicine safety research

The federal Government will invest $25 million in research to improve the safe use of medicines and medicines intervention by pharmacists.

Solutions for minimising medicine stockpiling

Many pharmacists have likely come across expired medicines, kept 'just in case' for later use. But stockpiling can create a number of medicine safety risks.

From the President: PSA at the FIP World Congress in Seville,...

I have just returned from FIP’s World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Seville, where PSA CEO Mark Kinsela, PSA Senior Pharmacist Peter...