Australian Pharmacist

The urgent need to train pharmacists as autonomous prescribers to fill healthcare gaps under the Queensland Scope of Practice Pilot.

Hospital pharmacists working in the hospital setting were once limited to the dispensary. This has now evolved further to specialisations.

Medication errors and poisonings are leading to a staggering number of avoidable hospitalisations among children and adolescents.

While chlorpromazine’s use on people with schizophrenia has been overtaken by atypical antipsychotics, it is still used widely.

With COVID-19 outbreaks in one in four Victorian residential aged care facilities, many older people are at risk not only from the pandemic, but from a lack of medicine safety.

A paediatric oncologist explains how pharmacists can spot the early warning signs of childhood brain cancer and save lives.