Clinical
Keeping up with credentialing
Current credentialing arrangements for pharmacists have been extended into 2025. Experts in the field present a primer for medication management reviews Authors: Amy Page, Deborah Hawthorne and Brooke Shelly Pharmacists …
How should OTC analgesics be displayed?
Should paracetamol and ibuprofen be displayed for sale where children can reach them? What about right next to chocolate bars? One stakeholder weighs in The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of …
Think naloxone beyond opioids, expert warns
A pharmacist expert on opioids is calling for an 鈥渦rgent upscale鈥� in harm minimisation, following two coroner鈥檚 recommendations on illicit drug use Coroners Ingrid Giles and Simon McGregor have recommended …
April MIMS update
We look at some of the recent changes to the medicines landscape, with new products, indications and contraindications New Products Fezolinetant (Veoza) is a nonhormonal selective NK3 receptor antagonist that …
Lengthy use underscores need for early assessment
Discharge from hospital is a common reason for initiating oxycodone, study finds, but a proportion of people were still taking the drug 12 months later鈥� About half of new oxycodone …
Scheduling shakeup
A raft of new scheduling decisions have been revealed, with a number of medicines set to be downscheduled, but no alteration to planned paracetamol changes A number of decisions have …
Call for paracetamol to go S4
New research indicates the upscheduling of modified-release paracetamol has had no impact on rates of overdose, with calls for it to go to prescription only聽 A new Australian study has …
Boy鈥檚 methadone death was in 鈥榟igh-risk鈥� circumstances
A pharmacist who dispensed methadone to parents of a boy who died from ingesting the drug has suggested a 鈥渂etter system鈥� for informing employee pharmacists, especially when owners are absent …
To dip or not to dip?
A program delivered by pharmacists has seen positive results around reduction of unnecessary urine dipstick testing in aged care homes Pharmacist-led education to support behaviour change around urine dipstick testing …
鈥楾his is not going to free up GPs鈥�
Training for prescribing pharmacists was not what they expected 鈥� one of the first cohort outlines her experiences The Australian Pharmacy Professional conference on the Gold Coast recently heard from …
MedsAware: A minute with Lisa Pont
One pharmacist talks about the need for pharmacists to be brave when it comes to deprescribing Around MedsAware: Deprescribing Week 2024 (18-24 March), the AJP is presenting, in partnership with …
On-site aged care pharmacists: salary, funding details emerging
The health department has provided an update on the aged care on-site pharmacist measure 鈥� still without a starting date The update was published on Monday, 18 March 2024, and …