counselling
Helping parents to help their children: tailoring counselling for pain & fever
Dr Kieran Le Plastrier and pharmacist Suzanna Nash discuss how to improve parent counselling skills on pain & fever using new ACP guideline 30 April 2024 | 7-8.00PM AEST What …
A preventative measure
Pharmacists play a key role in prescribing, dispensing and counselling around emergency contraception, but there are still barriers to access Emergency contraception (EC) is an important tool in the arsenal …
Taking the right path
As new laws regarding the prescribing, dispensing and cultivation of medicinal cannabis come into play, pharmacists have an essential role in ensuring patients receive the right advice Since legislative changes …
Changing the model
It’s time to move Australian community pharmacy to a new payment model that rewards time spent with patients, but how would it work? Current pharmacy dispensing-based payment models disincentivise patient …
How to save a life
Pharmacists and other health professionals provide a crucial role in supporting people who are struggling with mental illness or at risk of suicide Lauren* struggled in secret for years with …
Labelling, counselling improvements
As part of its commitment to the safe and quality use of medicines, the PSA recently convened meetings to discuss improvements in the labelling and counselling for antibiotics and opioids …
More baby boomers drinking at risky levels
With rising prevalence of risky drinking – and reports of people using alcohol as a replacement for OTC codeine – could pharmacists play a role in alcohol screening? The number …
Why pharmacists can struggle without documentation
PDL has highlighted the importance of documentation, citing two case scenarios where failing to document could have significant impact In its latest newsletter, PDL highlights that adequate documentation of interaction …
Meds info: do GPs outshine pharmacists?
GPs are much more likely than pharmacists to always give verbal advice about new medicines, research from New Zealand shows PhD student Amber Young from the University of Otago analysed …
Tighter laws urged for paracetamol
Retailers should be prevented from offering multi-pack deals on paracetamol, says the UK’s Royal Pharmaceutical Society Earlier this month the Which? group conducted an investigation into how independent and high …
What do your patients remember about you?
Sometimes it’s the little things that make you memorable, writes Vanessa Lontos Recently while on a Qantas flight from Melbourne to Sydney, I was sitting in my seat reading my …
Keeping busy
Management activities taking up a quarter of a pharmacists’ day, with less than a third of their time spent with patients, new study finds Australian pharmacists spend only around 32% …