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The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) is urging all pharmacists to be aware of regulatory changes to nicotine vaping, which come into effect on 1...

Australia is in danger of slipping down the global trade ladder unless it completely overhauls its tax and industrial relations sectors, recruits skilled...

Pharmaceutical Society of Australia The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) welcomes this morning’s announcement that up to 56 rural and remote community pharmacies in Queensland will shortly join the COVID-19 vaccine roll and start administering the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to eligible Australians. In a joint announcement this morning, the Minister for Health the Hon. Greg Hunt and Queensland Minister for Health and Ambulance Services the Hon. Yvette D’Ath revealed community pharmacies in rural and remote Queensland who were successful in the recent EOI process would be activat...

Pharmaceutical Society of Australia Now is the time for action on medicine management in aged care. PSA urges the government to fund pharmacists for aged care facilities in the upcoming 2021-22 Federal Budget. Older Australians in residential aged care facilities continue to face significant threats to their health due to harm arising from misuse or mismanagement of their medications. PSA National President, A/Prof Chris Freeman, said older Australians are paying the price with either their life or their quality of life. “Twenty per cent of unplanned hospital admissions for aged care reside...

Date Time Share Report reveals 72,500 rural and remote Australians admitted to hospital each year due to medicine-related problems Pharmaceutical Society of Australia A new report has revealed 1.3 million rural and remote Australians do not take their medicines at all or as intended adding an estimated $2.03 billion to our annual health care costs. The Medicine Safety: Rural and remote care report, developed for the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia by Charles Sturt University, also found that 72,500 rural and remote Australians are admitted to hospital each year due to problems with their...