In Depth
Improving your patient engagement and experience
Transformational vs transactional : how would your customers describe their visit to your pharmacy? Glenn Guilfoyle and Marta Stybowski break down the steps to ensuring a better patient experience One …
Ozempic isn’t approved for weight loss in Australia. So how are people accessing it?
Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide are taking drugs like Ozempic to lose weight. But what do we actually know about them? The Conversation’s experts, Andrew Bartlett, Jessica Pace and …
Whither pharmacy?
Pharmacists need to highlight the value they offer as greedy grocers snatch front-of-shop sales It’s April 1934, and GG Jewkes, the vice president of the Federated Pharmaceutical Service Guild of …
PDL advice on reporting culture
The safety of a pharmacist’s patients should always be front of mind. Beyond a pharmacist’s clinical expertise, the culture within our healthcare settings significantly impacts patient outcomes One crucial aspect …
Research Roundup
Debbie Rigby rounds up the latest in research news Prevalence and patterns of comorbidities in older people with type 2 diabetes in Australian primary care settings This study used BEACH …
Price pressures
What are the 5 key forces at play in the current pharmacy market? Natalie Sirianni explains The last 5 years Over the last five or so years, we have seen …
Cardiovascular risks and COVID-19
New research confirms the benefits of vaccination, writes Glen Pyle, Dalhousie University COVID-19 is a respiratory disease. Yet, from the earliest days of the pandemic, the cardiovascular risks associated with …
Research Roundup
Debbie Rigby rounds up the latest in research news Blood pressure and variability responses to the down-titration of antihypertensive drugs In this study, down-titration of antihypertensive drugs in people with …
Regulatory barriers may not be enough to stop CWH, Sigma merger
Sigma Healthcare’s merger with Chemist Warehouse may go ahead despite competition concerns Associate Professor of Finance at RMIT, Angel Zhong, warns Corporate Australia loves a big merger. And amid a growing …
Fix your workflow in four steps
Chantelle Turner takes a look at fixing up workflow problems: and you’re the best person to do it, she says A theme that reverberated around APP 2024 was the importance …
Shaking up the system
How have the recent seismic changes to the community pharmacy landscape affected the way you should view your banner group relationship? We speak to the experts The announcement of the …
Pharmacy staff work hours capped at 58 per week
Should pharmacy workers be compensated if they are brought down by anthrax, arsenic poisoning or phosphorus poisoning? Our 1914 issue had the answer Industrial relations were on the agenda in …
