Pharmacists within general practice is a positive step forward, but the exclusion from MBS Team Care arrangements in CDM items makes no sense. After a long period of advocacy from PSA, and other medical groups including the AMA, the announcement...

Seeking greater remuneration and a different working life, some community pharmacists find themselves considering the leap to hospitals. So what do they need to know? Transitioning from community to hospital pharmacy might seem like a daunting leap into the...

Community pharmacies must continue to evolve if they wish to thrive into the future. What does that look like in practice? ‘Fifty cigarettes a day for 50 years’, Canberra pharmacist Ben Jackson recalled of a 65-year-old patient who used to...

Public knowledge of where to access resources for patient clinical trials could be supported by pharmacists, a contributor to pharmacy policy has said. Mitch Kirkman, Development Quality Assurance Manager at Novartis and recipient of the 2008 Medicines Australia Pat Clear...

Experts address the pharmacy practice questions that arise in relation to ECP salary negotiation, GP working relationships and commencing a RMMR service. Q: I’m an ECP and have been working at the same pharmacy for two years, taking on more...

Before entering into a partnership, it is important for all partners to carefully consider the commercial, legal and business succession issues which inevitably flow from entering into a legally binding partnership, and address those issues in an agreed form,...

Australia’s healthcare system is strained but there is immense scope for the role of pharmacists to address the sector’s future burdens. At a time of great strain in Australia’s healthcare system, PSA recognises the opportunity of pharmacists to assist, along...

As trusted custodians of personal health information, pharmacists need to be transparent and detailed on exactly how they keep customers’ data confidential and secure. A regular patient walks into their local Sydney pharmacy and asks to pick up her husband's...

Greater support for GP pharmacists, funds for high-cost medicine reduction and $1 billion for new PBS spending have emerged as the high points of the Federal Budget. PSA National President Shane Jackson welcomed a Workforce Incentive Program that will see...

Health Minister Greg Hunt hints at no major shake-up, but trade-offs will be made. Attempting to allay fears of a major pharmacy sector shake-up, the Federal Health Minister has said he will take a 'conservative' approach to some of the...