APP2021: Anish Patel on the role pharmacists play to deliver better healthcare outcomes
At the helm of GSK Consumer Healthcare in Australia and New Zealand is Area General Manager Anish Patel. In this interview with Miranda Deakin at APP2021, he talks about his passion for leading the team at …
Dequeuing your queues
Community pharmacies must pay more attention to the amount of time patients spend in queues, says Glenn Guilfoyle Regardless of all the latest retail pharmacy challenges and opportunities: electronic prescriptions, …
The week in review
Vaccination and contraception were key issues in the pharmacy sector this week Vaccination made headlines, with the announcement that Moderna is to be the vaccine supplied by community pharmacies in …
Endo ignorance
Despite a ministerial apology, and subsequent National Action Plan, women with endometriosis continue to experience delayed diagnosis, ongoing pain and indifference Endometriosis is a debilitating, chronic condition that affects 200 …
Professional misconduct through ‘laziness or poor attitude’
A pharmacist has been reprimanded after she dispensed S4 restricted drugs to herself, family and a friend without scripts The pharmacist faced the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal where she …
Advancing your career
In the second of our series on progressing your career, pharmacists talk about looking for and taking the opportunities, not restricting your options and finding mentors In the second of …
Smoke and the limits of livability
Governments have been urged to act on health fallout from bushfire smoke in a new international report Australia will face recurring episodes of widespread bushfire smoke and its associated health …
‘Our doorway out of the pandemic.’
Activating South Australian community pharmacies to provide COVID-19 jabs makes “makes perfect sense,” says the state government in announcing the role the sector is to play South Australia’s Marshall Liberal …
Clinical tips: Overdose
As the adage says, the dose makes the poison… but the general public don’t always know that, write Lisa Nissen and Esther Lau An overdose is when more than the …
Clinical tips: leg ulcer
Pharmacists are well placed to treat leg ulcers in their early stages, writes Carlene McMaugh Leg ulcers may be associated with venous insufficiency, neuropathy, or arterial disease, and may be …
TGA does ‘terrible job’ on CMs, say critics
A new product has been given the first ever Aust L(A) listing for a herbal complementary medicine – but the move has attracted criticism Dr Ken Harvey, president of Friends …
Pharmacist reprimanded over inappropriate patient relationships
After a patient’s mother died, a pharmacist used his store’s records to contact her and begin a sexual relationship The Pharmacy Board has issued a statement about a pharmacist who …