Falls: causes and management
Falls prevention involves early intervention using a combination of physical exercise, physiotherapy, home assessment by an occupational therapist, podiatry, eye care, behavioural instruction as well as regular medication reviews. In …
Resilience: how to build it within yourself and your staff
With significant change, workplace stress and other pressures on pharmacists and pharmacy staff, resilience is a key attribute that is more important than ever. Resilience, the ability to bounce back …
Aspirin: who needs it?
Aspirin is one of the most widely used medicines in cardiovascular disease. However, the results of three recently published trials support the previous body of evidence that aspirin does not …
Inflammatory bowel disease
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic, relapsing condition for which long-term maintenance therapy is normally required. This article explains the basic pathophysiology of IBD, including the goals of treatment, …
Keeping the shelves stocked
DHL remains out of the CSO loop as accepted tenders are revealed Tenders from six distributors have been accepted for Community Service Obligation (CSO) funding, the Department of Health has …
Keeping up with the trends
It’s hard to keep up with the seemingly constant changes and developments in technology. We sought the views of a range of industry experts on the major trends, developments and …
Looking forward
AJP gets the student perspective on the state of pharmacy from NAPSA president Jessica Hsiao This content is restricted to registered users only. If you have already registered on the AJP …
S8 register had no resemblance to actual stock
The Victorian Pharmacy Authority has reported on three recent panel hearings, one of which featured “extensive” S8 records discrepancies In one case, “discrepancies in records for S8 poisons were so …
The week in review
It’s been a busy week for the Pharmacy Guild, as it battled a proposal to let patients get double quantities of some PBS medicines per script, and encouraged Aussies to …
Breaking the taboo: The real story of menopause
Menopause is a time of life which brings a range of symptoms—some of which will be felt severely by some women, while others barely suffer at all—accompanied by a great deal of sensationalised media …
Guild wins script length war… amid fallout
A proposal to increase dispensing quantities for some drugs has been scuppered following Guild concerns – and stakeholders have slammed the Guild The measure, suggested by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory …
Pharmacy jabs on the nose with RACGP
RACGP national president Dr Harry Nespolon has again made a jibe about perfume and pharmacy, after the Guild encouraged Australians to be vaccinated against the flu On Thursday, the Pharmacy …