Don't Rush to Crush
Australia’s essential guide to safely administering oral medicines to people with enteral feeding tubes or swallowing difficulties.
Australia’s essential guide to safely administering oral medicines to people with enteral feeding tubes or swallowing difficulties.
Australasian Competency Standards Framework for Pharmacy Technicians 2025
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In this issue, members explore innovation at the frontline of practice. The delivery of chemotherapy at home, improvements in transitions of care between acute and primary care, radiopharmacy, accessibility to new Hepatitis C medicines, opioid stewardship and the embedding of pharmacists in General Practice provided examples of ‘thinking outside the box – even when you have to work inside it’.
After Medication Safety was declared Australia’s next National Health Priority Area by Health Minister Greg Hunt, Pharmacy GRIT explores the impact of maintaining balance in pharmacy practice and patient care. Every day hospital pharmacists walk a tightrope – judging the potential risks and rewards of intervention – and articles examined harm from antimicrobials, pregabalin and opioids, policy perspectives on the complexity of medicines, and a mother’s journey from a tragic medication error to becoming an international safety advocate.
Learn about the lives of our members across Australia, working in a variety of healthcare settings to improve patient outcomes.