Australian Pharmacist

The 60-day dispensing policy is predicted to have enormous impacts on community pharmacy and vulnerable Australians.

As the FIP Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences draws to a close, yet another big scope of practice change has been announced.

PSA Lifetime Achievement Award recipients Valerie Constable FPS, John Coppock FPS and Bill Horsfall FPS, together with Chemist Outlet Founder Niels Bowen MPS, were among 545 people to receive a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2022 Australia Day honours.

Achieving adequate pain relief in the community setting has become increasingly challenging. Misuse of analgesics in recent years has led to the implementation of stricter regulations in Australia.

With the launch of a new PSA report, pharmacists in regional and remote areas highlight disadvantages that access to more funding, collaboration and medication management reviews could improve.

In the fourth of a six-part series, we expand on the PSA Choosing Wisely recommendations, taking a closer look at the dispensing of repeat...