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...
Medicine safety – a new national priority
A watershed moment for patients, pharmacists and medicine safety was reached last week when federal, state and territory health ministers declared Medicine Safety and...
Lead-up to medicine error
Mr Sotirios Temopoulos had a medical history that included multiple myeloma with a myelomataus lesion in his cervical spine, in which he was prescribed...
New Parliamentary Friendship Group champions safer medicines use
The PSA has supported the launch of the inaugural Parliamentary Friends of Safe and Quality Use of Medicines event, using the opportunity to call...
HMR in remote Indigenous communities
Providing Home Medicines Reviews (HMR) in remote Indigenous communities has been challenging yet rewarding. I feel privileged to have been able to experience the...
Greater pharmacist role in Aboriginal health trialled
Pharmacist-led health interventions in Aboriginal communities came under the spotlight at PSA18 in Sydney yesterday, as delegates got early insight into some of the...
