by Ryan Watts | Oct 5, 2015 | Blog, Pharmacist
Pharmaceutical Care is a term that has been evolving for a couple of decades now. In 1990 Hepler and Strand first defined the term as “the responsible provision of drug therapy for the purpose of achieving definite outcomes that improve a patient’s quality of...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Aug 10, 2015 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, Distance Selling Pharmacy, GPhC, Pharmacist, SOPs
The program to return unwanted medicines to community pharmacies in Australia has been given approval for a further 3 year period. The program will continue to collect and dispose the returned medicines along with an analysis of the items and the research into why...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Aug 10, 2015 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacist
Researchers at the Harvard Medical School have released some research to show the potential pitfalls of Googling or otherwise seeking advice online relating to medical conditions. The scientists tested 23 online symptom checkers including many brand name sites and...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jul 19, 2015 | Analyisis, Blog, Business, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacist, Pharmacy Brands
News made it here to Australia over the 700 job cuts imposed within the Boots head office and support network noting that the job cuts will not be coming from within any retail locations. This news follows the Boots merger with US chain Walgreens and whilst not...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jul 19, 2015 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, Distance Selling Pharmacy, GPhC, NHS, Pharmacist, SOPs, Training
Just a quick example from South Australia of real-life pharmacy best practice. A Adelaide doctor has been facing court over allegations of forged prescriptions for both Stilnox and Tramadol. Pharmacy staff alerted the police after concerns over the suspicious scripts...
by Jackie (née Heneghan) Peck | Jul 19, 2015 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, GPhC, MHRA, Pharmacist, pharmacy business development, Regulation
A leading substance abuse researcher in Australia believes that as long as it is illegal to sell e-cigarettes containing nicotine in Australia the constraint places researchers and smokers in a difficult situation. University of Queensland (UQ) Professor Wayne Hall,...
