Opinion

Each year, approximately 15,500 Australian families face the grief and trauma of someone they love dying from a disease caused by smoking. In 2017, smoking killed more people than alcohol and drug (including opioid) overdoses, transport accidents, falls and...

A number of recent decisions by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) are highly relevant to pharmacists in Australia. Firstly, the interim decision from the November 2017 Advisory Committee on Medicines Scheduling (ACMS) to continue to allow general sale (outside...

We know there’s high levels of medicines use in the aged care setting, which is not surprising given the demographics of residents and prevalence of multimorbidity. We also know there are problems with medication management in this setting, including alteration...

In 2001, after 20 years as a pharmacist in Sydney, I moved to Bathurst, a regional centre in NSW’s Central West. At the pharmacy, I was suddenly aware of a higher percentage of Aboriginal clients. Although I treated everyone...

Since becoming National President, I have received significant levels of feedback in support of PSA’s development of pharmacists working in general practice. I have also received many responses from individuals worried that the development of this role for pharmacists will...

Providing Home Medicines Reviews (HMR) in remote Indigenous communities has been challenging yet rewarding. I feel privileged to have been able to experience the powerful and beautiful country that remote HMR has taken me to, and grateful to the...

After starting my pharmacy career working in a neonatal intensive care unit, tending to the pharmacy needs of premature babies, I have now come full circle working with frail elderly people living in aged care facilities. These people deserve our...