Pharmacists ‘hindered’ during COVID-19 pandemic
Pharmacists have been hamstrung by conflicting federal and state legislation while battling to provide the best possible care for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pharmacist advice needed in the use of MR paracetamol
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has made an interim decision to upschedule modified release (MR) paracetamol tablets from 1 October 2019 due to safety...
How Luke Kelly FPS moved from pharmacy owner to broker
Community pharmacist. Business owner. Pharmacy broker. Mentor. Lecturer. These are all titles Luke Kelly FPS has held during his 40-year pharmacy career.
Hospital pharmacists’ scope is expanding
From roles in governance, research and education, hospital pharmacists are practicing to an increasingly advanced scope.
Running for the shelter of a ‘mother’s little helper’
The popularisation of meprobamate from the 1950s onwards ushered in the dawn of the psychopharmacological era where patients began to look to doctors to...
What pharmacists need to know about VAD legislation
Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) is now legal in most jurisdictions. But there’s a nation-wide regulation impeding access to the service.
