Pharmacists assisting in drug dependency
The recent upscheduling of codeine has pushed issues around drug dependency into the spotlight. So how can community pharmacists help minimise harm at the...
Managing children’s pain and fever with ibuprofen
Identifying and managing pain in children is a vital role for pharmacists.
Commonly encountered paediatric pain can be categorised as pain associated with infection...
Digital Health CRC to put focus on future of pharmacy
Pharmacists are being encouraged to look at the potential benefits digital technology will bring to the profession in the coming years.
Professor Libby Roughead, from...
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...
Rural healthcare advocate honoured
NSW pharmacist Anna Barwick MPS was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2025 Australia Day Honours.
Pharmacists in GP surgeries: the UK perspective
The workforce issue facing general practice has been around for some time in the United Kingdom. Between 2007 and 2014, the GP clinical workload...
