Australia’s cities hug the coast, but in rural and remote areas, sole pharmacists are providing communities with an essential service. Some may think it’s isolating, but many wouldn’t change a thing. Around 1800 registered pharmacists work across outer regional to...

People in nursing homes are too often forgotten but pharmacists have an opportunity to make a difference in their lives, says the 2018 MIMS Consultant Pharmacist of the Year, as named by the Australian Association of Consultant Pharmacists (AACP). The...

After more than 20 years in pharmacy, Zimbabwe-born Simon Carroll MPS was ready for a change: he sold his nine pharmacies, completed a master’s degree in marketing and started a charity to support school children in Africa. But his...

Growing up in the country, Jacinta Johnson MPS always wanted to work in a healthcare role, and pharmacy seemed to offer opportunities that no other allied health profession could match. AP: What attracted you to pharmacy? JJ: I knew I wanted a...

Yong Deng is a Grade 1 clinical pharmacist at Monash Health and one of the founders of South Sudanese Australian Youth United (SSAYU), a not-for-profit that aims to empower the community through education and employment, while combating alcoholism and...

Lieutenant Shreyans ‘Shaz’ Shah MPS, 28, always wanted to serve in the army, but thought that door closed once he became a pharmacist. It wasn’t until he chanced upon an army advertisement a few years back that he realised...

Having missed out on studying medicine at the university of her choice in India, Associate Professor Bandana Saini MPS thought she’d study pharmacy for ‘just a year’ while waiting to re-sit the medicine exams. More than two decades later,...

Pharmacist and runner Madeline Hills, applauded for her standout sportsmanship in the Commonwealth Games, tells AP how her pharmacy training set her up for athletic success. Ms Hills' inspiring efforts on the track and at the 10,000m race-end on 9 April have...

Since taking up the Chief Medical Officer post in 2016, Professor Brendan Murphy has made a number of strategic interventions in the pharmacy sphere, from directly admonishing the GPs with the highest rates of antibiotic prescribing to weighing in...

As a supporter of pharmacists, Catherine King MP is a firm believer in having a ‘broader’ role for pharmacists in Australia’s health system. During her speech at PSA17, Ms King said: ‘I want to recognise that pharmacists play a broader...