Health sector collaboration the key to improving medicine safety
Better use of existing funding, leveraging digital health and empowering consumers are the keys to improving medicine safety.
These were the main themes to come...
Medicine misadventure is common, reveals PSA
The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) has released a new report, Medicine Safety: Take Care, which highlights the extent of the unsafe use of...
Lack of evidence raises questions on long-term PPI use
There is rising concern over the side effects of long-term proton pump inhibitor (PPI) use but limited evidence to warrant discontinuation, a literature review...
PSA: embed pharmacists to reduce medicine harm in aged care
PSA has called for a national program that embeds pharmacists in all aged care facilities in its submission to the Royal Commission into Aged...
Royal Pharmaceutical Society director on the future of pharmacy
Ravi Sharma’s credentials in pharmacy are formidable. Recently appointed the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s (RPS’s) director for England, he was also National Clinical Lead for...
Patrick Reid extended interview
I've been lobbying pretty hard for a long time as both a pharmacist and the CEO of a large aged-care provider for pharmacists to...
