Scope expansion key to boosting access to care
Health minister keen to embrace skincare role for pharmacists to ease pressure on health system Extending pharmacists’ scope of practice to include the treatment of certain skin conditions will improve access …
Oral corticosteroids—not always forever
Pharmacists conducting comprehensive medication reviews need to take a best possible medication history to identify long-term and cumulative use of oral corticosteroids, recommend medications to optimise underlying conditions, identify other …
The importance and skill of saying no
When a pharmacist is unable to fulfil a patient’s request for a particular medicine or service based on their professional opinion and legal and ethical obligations, it is important that …
Multimorbidity
Patients with complex multimorbidity experience a substantial burden not only because of their chronic health problems but also as a result of the treatments they receive. Multimorbidity also poses problems …
Sports supplements: the role of pharmacists in ensuring safe supplementation
By providing education, guidance and information, pharmacists can play a role in ensuring all purchasers of sport supplements—athletes, their parents, partners or carers—know how to use them safely, writes Karen …
Vaping: e-cigarettes in smoking cessation
What is the evidence for nicotine vaping products in smoking cessation and their impact on health more generally? By Sandra Rackemann BPharm (Hons), AACPA, Professional Development Pharmacist, Australasian College of …
Skincare next step in scope expansion
Pharmacists to treat four skin conditions under expanded scope trial Community pharmacists in NSW will be able to prescribe treatments for certain skin conditions from March 2024, under the next …
Promoting healthy bones and preventing falls
Greater awareness of the risk factors for osteoporosis may help encourage early intervention and reduce fracture rates, writes Leanne Philpott Osteoporosis often goes undiagnosed until the first fracture occurs Discussing …
The week in review
60-day dispensing, the 8CPA, antimicrobial awareness and regulatory issues all made the news this week It was World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week, and FIP issued new policy, saying pharmacists should …
Pharmacist faces forgery charges
Queensland’s health ombudsman has taken immediate action against a pharmacist, including banning her from having her own personal medicines dispensed in a workplace Conditions have been imposed on the pharmacist’s …
‘Recognition for every pharmacist, everywhere’
ANZCAP independent program opens in Australia The second major program of the Australian and New Zealand College of Advanced Pharmacy (ANZCAP) has launched, with learning experiences now live as the …
Good boy brings pharmacy department joy
His poster at the recent SHPA conference won the people’s choice award, but Travis Phelan wants the credit to go to his partner in paws-itivity: Bernie the chocolate Labrador Phelan, …