Work & the workplace
Penalty and overtime rates ‘not optional extras’: union
Professional Pharmacists Australia backs legislation to protect penalty and overtime rates Moves to enshrine protections for penalty and overtime rates will provide certainty for low-income earners, the Shop, Distributive and …
‘High risk, high stakes’: Errors involving children
Pharmacists share shocking case studies, with one seeing up to 1000-times dose errors for clonidine while another witnessed a child develop opioid dependency Leading pharmacists are warning the profession to …
Pay bump secured for pharmacy assistants
New deal to deliver improved pay and conditions for public hospital-based pharmacy assistants, union says Pharmacy assistants will be among the 60,000 public health workers to benefit from a new …
‘Just not enough’
Hospital pharmacist roles in the NT struggle to compete on pay to attract and retain staff amid “serious” pharmacy workforce shortages, as possible industrial action looms Pharmacist remuneration in the …
‘Success is not optional’: Guild
Guild releases 10-year plan to strengthen the role of pharmacy in the delivery of care and build healthier communities The Pharmacy Guild of Australia aims to have 80% of …
‘Put your oxygen mask on before helping others’
Pharmacists are being urged to look after their mental health, so they can better support patients Pharmacists working across all settings need to focus on their personal mental health and …
The top 10: work and the workplace
Which of our stories relating to pharmacist’s working lives and conditions resonated with our readers in the first half of the year? These were the 10 best read stories relating …
‘Huge’ opportunity for pharmacist prescribing
Crucial drug for menopausal women should be added to pharmacist prescribing rights, GP argues, with doctors “not doing it well” Vaginal hormones should be made more easily available through pharmacists, …
‘Patient safety is at serious risk’: union
Pharmacists working at public hospitals in the Northern Territory are set to vote on taking industrial action over ongoing staff shortages Union leaders are warning that cancer services in the …
Lived experience influences at-risk screening: study
How does a pharmacist’s own experiences with mental health affect how they screen and respond to at-risk patients? Researchers in Western Australia investigated Pharmacists’ lived experience with suicide affects how …
‘We are not policemen’
PDL director advises on how to address patients “demanding” S3 medicines including SABAs While pharmacists need to be counselling on short-acting beta agonists (SABAs) overuse, it’s not their role to …
Digitalisation of healthcare will require pharmacists
Growing use of technology to deliver pharmacy services is set to create new roles for pharmacists within the hospital sector Pharmacists are likely to see new roles emerge as health …