‘If medicine harm was a chronic disease it would already be a national health priority.’

About 250,000 Aussies are hospitalised each year due to medicine-related issues, half of which could have been prevented… but how can pharmacists help? The Medicine Safety: Take Care report, developed for the PSA by the Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre at the University of South Australia, estimates that 250,000 Australians are hospitalised