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High-quality medicines reconciliation should ideally occur in the emergency department or soon after admission to the ward.
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Mandatory reporting: New reporting rules give advance warning
On 1 January 2019, new laws will enforce the mandatory reporting scheme for medicine shortages – a welcome change.
It’s a very difficult conversation...
Digital Health CRC to put focus on future of pharmacy
Pharmacists are being encouraged to look at the potential benefits digital technology will bring to the profession in the coming years.
Professor Libby Roughead, from...
Training for Health Care Homes program
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If a pandemic or disaster struck in your community, would your pharmacy know how to properly assist?
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Choosing wisely: sedatives
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Taking care: the different areas of medicine safety
In its landmark Medicine Safety: Take Care report, PSA identified the frightening cost of medicine misadventure in Australia. With medicines safety a central theme...
