Looking after each other
Pharmacists need to prioritise their own health, and those of their colleagues, if they are to continue providing optimal care to patients, writes Krysti-Lee Patterson As pharmacists, we have a …
A Dermatologists’ guide to personalising acne treatment
When it comes to the treatment of acne, Pharmacists can often be the first point of contact for an acne sufferer seeking treatment and advice. It is important to understand …
A Dermatologists’ guide to holistic skincare routines with acne treatment
While treatment is a definitive therapeutic component in the management of acne, adjunctive skincare is just as important in alleviating symptoms and signs of disease, reducing the use of therapeutic …
Covid and medication: how research emerged
Researchers focus on the impact of COVID-19 medical research on Australian community pharmacy practice This is the fourth in a series of articles about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic …
Pharmacy students get dental insights
Western Australian Pharmacy Students unite to bridge the gap between the field of dentistry and pharmacy by Sarah Ho, Danielle Lim, Rachel Loh and Antoni Zeidan (Master of Pharmacy, School …
Pharmacist prescribing: the clinical merits
Australia has been slow to accept the extension of pharmacists’ scope of practice into prescribing. John Wilks looks into the international literature, and the impact of charting programs Pharmacist prescribers …
RATs in the ranks: pharmacy and covid testing examined
Researchers take a look at the role of pharmacists in testing for Covid and supplying rapid antigen test kits during the Covid-19 pandemic This article is the third in a …
Charting: the benefits and the risks
While medication charting is a new tool for pharmacists that brings many benefits to patients, it is not without risks that need to be mitigated against, says Naomi Lim, PDL …
Practising ‘good’ dispensing
PDL has recently updated the Guide to Good Dispensing to reflect changes in the dispensing process that have arisen from changes in technology and legislation, such as the introduction of …
My Health Record is meant to empower patients…
But with little useful information stored, is it worth saving? asks Megan Prictor, Senior Lecturer in Law, the University of Melbourne Australia’s My Health Record is a national, integrated electronic …
We got some key things wrong about long COVID
Here are five things we’ve learnt, writes Peter Wark, University of Newcastle In late 2020 as we hid from COVID behind the moat of “fortress Australia”, we started to hear …
The haemorrhage you don’t know about
How much is staff disengagement costing your pharmacy? Chantelle Turner takes a look… Good business sense says that if you want to increase your profit and you can’t increase your …