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A community pharmacist and a PDL professional officer discuss how to minimise psychosocial hazards created by medicolegal incidents in pharmacy, in a webinar moderated by PSS President Curtis Ruhnau 9 …

New research indicates the upscheduling of modified-release paracetamol has had no impact on rates of overdose, with calls for it to go to prescription only  A new Australian study has …

A doctor and qualified pharmacist has been banned from providing any health service after his “disgraceful and contemptible” conduct The practitioner had been registered as a pharmacist between 2008 and …

How can patients start conversations about deprescribing – and where can pharmacists come in? Pharmacists were recently offered a consumer perspective As part of MedsAware: Deprescribing Action Week last week …

Pharmacists are again calling on governments to make continued dispensing measures permanent, as the current arrangements expire​ The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia has highlighted that the National Health (Continued Dispensing – …

Chemist Warehouse’s expansion in the Australian market is continuing with five new stores opening in the first three months of 2024  Discount giant, Chemist Warehouse (CWH), has added stores in …

Electronic medical records (EMRs) play a key role in averting medication errors in hospital settings, researcher reports  Media reports linking EMRs to adverse events overlook the significant medicines safety benefits …

The vaping bill is read a second time, with the National Party arguing again for a similar approach to vaping as Australia has adopted towards tobacco The Albanese’s prescription-only approach, …

Medication software provider MedAdvisor Solutions says it is rapidly deploying artificial intelligence (AI) to take the burden off pharmacists and improve both its margins and patient care model In a …

Pharmacy chain bans children from buying advanced anti-ageing skincare; diabetes medicine mixup sees Dublin woman suffer fatal seizure; proposed mifepristone restrictions in US Supreme Court Stockholm, Sweden: The Apotek Hjärtat …

A pharmacist who dispensed methadone to parents of a boy who died from ingesting the drug has suggested a “better system” for informing employee pharmacists, especially when owners are absent …

Capital Chemist Southlands has been congratulated in Parliament as the winner of the 2024 Guild Pharmacy of the Year Federal Member for Bean, David Smith MP, said on Wednesday (27 …

Hospital pharmacy workers are marking their contributions to healthcare as part of the inaugural Hospital Pharmacy Day  The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA) has joined the European Association …