RMMR
What does an RMMR achieve?
RMMR provision reduced some medicines, but not others, after a year in an aged care facility, study finds A large population-based examination of medicines use in Australian residential aged care …
Telehealth: conducting medication reviews during COVID-19
What do pharmacists need to know about the recent ‘telepharmacy’ changes? The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the face of healthcare – and indeed pharmacy – as we know it. Since 21 April, pharmacists have been able to undertake a range …
Cap on or cap off?
No cap would be ideal, PSA president says as he outlines the proposals to the HMR and RMMR programs such as expansion of the referral pathway and follow-up reviews PSA national …
Role expansion
Enhanced RMMRs and CPA-linked programs are key to aged care improvement, say consultant pharmacists The Australian Association of Consultant Pharmacy (AACP) has issued a statement welcoming the findings of the …
Is embedding non-dispensing pharmacists the ‘wrong’ approach?
Can non-dispensing pharmacists play a crucial role such as prescribing and advising GPs… or should this role be filled by community pharmacists instead Pharmacist researcher Dr Janet Sluggett, an NHMRC …
Forum: PSA responds to claims RMMR pharmacists lacked support
Following claims from RMMR pharmacist Penny Kraemer that RMMR pharmacists have not always had the professional support they deserve, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia has responded. “The PSA consistently advocates …
Do RMMR pharmacists get a raw deal? Have your say in the AJP Discussion Forum.
Great discussion underway in the new AJP Discussion Forum about the perceived poor deal handed out to RMMR accredited pharmacists. Penny Kraemer writes “As we all are very well aware, …