Which intervention changed docs’ antibiotic prescribing?
American researchers trialed three interventions to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing… and two helped significantly Jason N. Doctor, of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, looked at how three behavioural …
Pharmacy in any direction
Whether you’re a first year student, have just finished your degree, or have over 30 years’ experience, it can’t be denied that the pharmacy world is changing, writes Sandra Minas …
Would you work in an ‘underground town’?
What life is like as a pharmacist working in this built-into-the-earth town Coober Pedy is an outback opal mining town in northern South Australia, where the desert climate has temperatures …
Guild commercial interest risking patients: Kruys
A high-profile GP has accused the Guild of being a “disruptive factor in healthcare” over the codeine debate RACGP Queensland chair Dr Edwin Kruys has written on his Doctor’s Bag …
Sigma wins $40m in tenders
Sigma Hospital Services has won the tender to provide pharmaceutical products to Northern Health Sigma is now set to supply pharmacy products to Northern Health’s four major healthcare campuses located …
The distance between us
Are men and women so different? How do health outcomes and risk factors differ between the sexes? The answer may surprise you The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has …
Cute shopper stars in youth tourism push
A koala who popped into a Tocumwal pharmacy has become a star of a new Tourism Australia campaign In August, the koala ambled through the doors of the Tocumwal Guardian …
Bid to halve meds errors
The WHO aims to reduce medication errors by 50% worldwide within five years A new global initiative for error reduction was launched in Brisbane today, as part of a push …
Research Roundup
Debbie Rigby rounds up the latest in research news Alterations in fecal microbiota composition by probiotic supplementation in healthy adults A systematic review of 7 randomised controlled trials has demonstrated …
Strategies already underway to tackle pharmacist stress
It’s Mental Health Day, and a good time for pharmacists to implement some self care strategies Following the release of the National Stress and Wellbeing Survey of Pharmacists, Intern Pharmacists …
What to do for the new CPD period
Pharmacy Board’s updated guidance on how to plan your CPD in light of the revised competency standards framework A comprehensive review of the 2010 framework was combined with integration of …
Pharmacy Board: “Be professional on social media”
Pharmacists have been reminded that the Code of Conduct applies to all online activity—including public forums and closed groups The Social media policy and Code of conduct for pharmacists both …