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Which intervention changed docs’ antibiotic prescribing?
American researchers trialed three interventions to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing… and two helped significantly Jason N. Doctor, of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, looked at how three behavioural …
Would you work in an ‘underground town’?
What life is like as a pharmacist working in this built-into-the-earth town Coober Pedy is an outback opal mining town in northern South Australia, where the desert climate has temperatures …
Guild commercial interest risking patients: Kruys
A high-profile GP has accused the Guild of being a “disruptive factor in healthcare” over the codeine debate RACGP Queensland chair Dr Edwin Kruys has written on his Doctor’s Bag …
Sigma wins $40m in tenders
Sigma Hospital Services has won the tender to provide pharmaceutical products to Northern Health Sigma is now set to supply pharmacy products to Northern Health’s four major healthcare campuses located …
The distance between us
Are men and women so different? How do health outcomes and risk factors differ between the sexes? The answer may surprise you The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has …
Cute shopper stars in youth tourism push
A koala who popped into a Tocumwal pharmacy has become a star of a new Tourism Australia campaign In August, the koala ambled through the doors of the Tocumwal Guardian …
Bid to halve meds errors
The WHO aims to reduce medication errors by 50% worldwide within five years A new global initiative for error reduction was launched in Brisbane today, as part of a push …
Strategies already underway to tackle pharmacist stress
It’s Mental Health Day, and a good time for pharmacists to implement some self care strategies Following the release of the National Stress and Wellbeing Survey of Pharmacists, Intern Pharmacists …
What to do for the new CPD period
Pharmacy Board’s updated guidance on how to plan your CPD in light of the revised competency standards framework A comprehensive review of the 2010 framework was combined with integration of …
Pharmacy Board: “Be professional on social media”
Pharmacists have been reminded that the Code of Conduct applies to all online activity—including public forums and closed groups The Social media policy and Code of conduct for pharmacists both …
Forum: Things that make me shake my head in pharmacy
What are your facepalm moments? Things that make me shake my head in pharmacy, writes an AJP forum member: 1. Patients coming in without their glasses. I need to give them …
Would codeine be listed today?
Codeine might not even be approved for use if it was introduced today, one doctor says “I think if codeine was invented next week, it might struggle to get listed,” …