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...
Just what the pharmacist ordered
Pharmacist prescribing is ‘imminent’, says PSA National President Dr Shane Jackson. So what could that mean for you and your patients?
Pharmacists will have...
People living with chronic pain fear stigma, research finds
New research from Chronic Pain Australia has found low awareness of the upcoming Pain MedsCheck trial among people living with chronic pain, as well...
Pandemic planning for pharmacists
If a pandemic or disaster struck in your community, would your pharmacy know how to properly assist?
That's the issue PhD candidate Elizabeth McCourt is...
GPs use antibiotics as placebos: study
Most Australian GPs have used a placebo in practice at least once, with active placebos used far more than inert placebos, a new study...
A simple way to improve pharmacist-patient interactions
Checking technicians would allow pharmacists to spend more time on patient-focused activities in both community and hospital pharmacy settings, New Zealand research has found.
Based...
