Even more old medicines
The entries continue to roll in for our ‘Search for Australia’s Oldest Medicines’, co-run by AJP and the Return of Unwanted Medicines (RUM) Project The main image is from a selection …
Allergy aware
Australian children have one of the highest rates of food allergies in the world, writes Leanne Philpott Yet a recent survey uncovered a serious need for extensive community education on …
Triad of troubles a health hazard
What conditions are most likely to rob Australians of years of healthy life? Life expectancy in Australia is increasing, but ailments such as depression, diabetes, back pain and other musculoskeletal …
Anti-vax GP suspended
Melbourne GP Dr John Piesse has been officially suspended while enquiries into his practice continue, says AHPRA Two weeks ago, Dr Piesse was reported to have agreed to an undertaking …
Pharmacy ‘essential’ in AF screening
Pharmacists are being encouraged to talk to patients about atrial fibrilliation, which causes 6,000 strokes every year hearts4heart, which raises awareness about the condition, is rolling out free mobile heart …
New mapping tool from PPDC
The Pharmacy Practitioner Development Committee has released a mapping tool to support the implementation of the National competency standards framework for pharmacists in Australia 2016 In developing the mapping tool, …
Board fees set to rise
AHPRA has now published its National Boards fees for 2017/2018 And while fees were frozen for eight professions, pharmacy wasn’t one of them. The Pharmacy Board – as well as …
Psych suspended for S8, S4D overprescribing
The specialist doctor only stopped after pharmacists pulled him up on his prescribing practices A Sydney psychiatrist has been suspended by AHPRA after a tribunal found him guilty of inappropriately …
Clinical tips: women and cancer
Pharmacists can help support campaigns to raise awareness of women’s cancers, write Dr Esther Lau and Prof Lisa Nissen Connie Johnson lost her long battle with cancer last week. The …
Corporatisation, ‘game changing’ interventions highlighted
Pharmacy is becoming corporatised across Australia and similar countries, warns Guild national president George Tambassis Mr Tambassis wrote in this week’s edition of Forefront that there are “a number of …
Guild snubs King Review with own plans for future
The Guild has launched a “thought-starter” paper to introduce a major strategic planning project which it says will help secure pharmacy’s future The paper, called Community Pharmacy 2025 – introduction, …
How pharmacists cope with stress
Pharmacists are a self-reliant bunch – but this means many don’t have solid coping strategies when they’re faced with stress The National Stress and Wellbeing Survey of Pharmacists, Intern Pharmacists …