PSS: a rewarding roller coaster ride
Volunteering for the Pharmacist Support Service is like a roller coaster ride, but is often rewarding. A volunteer tells their story. It has been over 40 years since I last …
The fundamental KPIs every pharmacy owner needs to measure
KPI reporting is a tool that allows pharmacy owners to gain deeper insights into their business performance, write Lachlan Ballinger and Morgan Whiting In today’s highly competitive environment, effectively using …
How can governments communicate with multicultural Australians about COVID vaccines?
It’s not as simple as having a poster in their language, say researchers Holly Seale, UNSW; Abela Mahimbo, University of Technology Sydney; Ben Harris-Roxas, UNSW, and Nadia Chaves, La Trobe …
Pharmacy partnerships: they’re like a marriage
When partnerships work, they’re beautiful, when they don’t, it’s a disaster, says John Thornett. How can you avoid the worst? In pharmacy land there has been some seriously impressive partnerships …
What it’s like to be a PSS Volunteer
What’s it like to volunteer for the Pharmacist Support Service? A pharmacist describes the experience of helping your peers needing support Training to be a PSS volunteer is not only …
Breaking through the barriers
From leaving the profession to spearheading research into deprescribing and consultant pharmacy, Deborah Hawthorne explains how she took control of her career I graduated from La Trobe University Bendigo in …
Don’t become obsolete
There has never been a better time to invest in design and technology to improve pharmacy efficiency write Bruce Annabel and Mal Scrymgeour One morning in 1869, a proud group …
‘Incredibly poor’ timing for news ban
Banning news links just days before Australia’s COVID vaccine rollout? Facebook, that’s just dangerous, writes Maryke Steffens By Maryke Steffens, Research Affiliate, University of Sydney; Research Fellow, National Centre for …
10am brunch, 1pm Kmart
When the media pokes fun at someone’s lifestyle, it’s harder for the next person to get COVID tested, write Clare Southerton and Marianne Clark from UNSW In countries like Australia …
Look before you leap!
A lack of thought process and risk assessment appear to be behind several of these errors, reports PDL “Look before you leap’ is an old saying to remind someone to …
COVID-19 and the impact on pharmacy trading in 2020
What were the financial ramifications on pharmacy businesses? Lachlan Ballinger and Morgan Whiting explain The year 2020 will forever be chiselled into our memories for the arrival of Covid-19 and …
Perth is the latest city to suffer a COVID quarantine breach
Why does this keep happening? asks Michael Toole, Burnet Institute Here’s a newspaper headline from May 27, 2020: “Worker at Melbourne quarantine hotel tests positive for COVID-19”. And here’s one …