Clinics without pharmacist assistants were more likely to have erratic medicine supply management practices.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Pharmacists
Displaying 1 - 20 of 35 articles
Three out of five said yes.
Pharmacists develop basic mental health knowledge as part of their formal training. But they report a lack the confidence about raising mental health issues with patients.
Some states already allow pharmacists to provide birth control to patients with a prescription. But FDA approval of an over-the-counter birth control pill could greatly expand access.
The greatest workforce challenge Australia faces is in health, an issue that will likely be with us for another decade. Here’s one way to fix it.
OTC hearing aids promise to increase the accessibility and affordability of the devices for millions of adults who live with untreated mild to moderate hearing loss.
Believe it or not, medication names are intended to be easy to remember and descriptive of the function they serve in the body.
Thinking carefully about people’s health during and after disaster is crucial to building disaster resilience. Ensuring access to medicines is a core part of that goal.
Side-effects for this unproven and potentially dangerous treatment range from vomiting and diarrhoea to seizures and a coma.
Community pharmacies and pharmacists are important resources in Australia’s vaccine rollout, and right now they’re being under-utilised.
A successful rollout isn’t just about the physical points where people can get the vaccinations. It’s also about having a trained workforce to administer them.
The language used to describe medications is confusing, with multiple names for the same drug. A change to prescribing rules from today should go a long way to addressing this issue.
COVID-19 has resulted in higher than normal levels of medicine shortages. Here’s what to do if your local pharmacy is out of stock.
The new Community Pharmacy Agreement will make it easier for Australia’s pharmacists to spend time providing expert health advice to customers rather than focusing on retail revenues.
Pharmacists are well positioned to provide communities with a lifesaving drug.
Pharmacies are essential services and will remain open, but some people will still have problems accessing medicines. Here’s what you can do.
There are cost-effective solutions to the problem of sub-standard drugs in Nigeria and other low-income countries.
The Pharmacy Guild represents the owners of community pharmacies around the country. Their reach into every community and large political donations make them more powerful than other lobby groups.
Pharmacies are paid a set amount to dispense most medicines, so the more they dispense, the greater their income. But there’s a better way to pay pharmacists and improve health care at the same time.
You no longer have to go to your GP to get your flu shot or catch up on vaccinations you missed earlier in life or have waning immunity to. But they’re unlikely to be free.
Top contributors
-
Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
-
Associate Professor of the Sydney Pharmacy School, University of Sydney
-
Palliative Medicine Physician, Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor and Director, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University
-
Researcher, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University
-
Associate Professor of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, University of Pittsburgh
-
Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
-
Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
-
Assistant Professor, Bond University
-
HERA Program Director - Health Workforce Optimisation Centre for the Business & Economics of Health, The University of Queensland
-
Stephen Duckett is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne
-
Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, Honorary Adjunct Research Fellow, Western Sydney University
-
Professor in Health Psychology, Lancaster University
-
Public Health Physician
-
Professor, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
