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Improving health outcomes for Arundel community
12 February 2020
Community education and improving awareness of the role of modern community pharmacy in today’s healthcare environment underpins the key goals at the busy Arundel Chempro pharmacy located on the Gold Coast in Queensland.
National, QLD | Blog Post | Capability, Community Engagement, Innovation, Advocacy, Clinical
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Improving health outcomes for Arundel community
12 February 2020
Community education and improving awareness of the role of modern community pharmacy in today’s healthcare environment underpins the key goals at the busy Arundel Chempro pharmacy located on the Gold Coast in Queensland.
National, QLD | Blog Post | Capability, Community Engagement, Innovation, Advocacy, Clinical
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FPP Blog: The lowdown on available pharmacist-administered immunisations in WA
31 January 2020
Vaccination is the best defence against contagious diseases. By getting vaccinated people can protect both themselves and also vulnerable people who can't get vaccinated such as babies.
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FPP Blog: 5 Steps to Best Practice Wound Care in Your Pharmacy
17 January 2020
Wound care costs billions of dollars worldwide with cost estimates for healthcare systems totalling approximately 3% of national health care budgets. In Australia there are over 400,000 sufferers of chronic wounds at any time, with numbers expected to increase as…
WA | Blog Post | Capability, Training, Business Administration, Clinical
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Harm Minimisation in community pharmacy
8 April 2019
Harm Minimisation seems like a mantra we should all adopt in life. It’s a common-sense philosophy that extends beyond providing pharmacotherapy for opioid or nicotine addiction. Yet, although we are knocking on the door of 2020, it still is not…
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FPP Blog: Issue 63: Getting Ready for KPI Monitoring
10 January 2019
In keeping with the saying ‘good decisions come from good data’, this blog will focus on the first considerations in preparing your pharmacy for accurate monitoring of its financial performance.
WA | Blog Post | Training, Business Administration, Innovation, Leadership, Clinical
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Oncology pharmacists
13 December 2018
Helping cancer patients understand treatment one prescription at a timeOncology pharmacists face an increasing workload with the number of new cancer diagnoses in Australia predicted to grow to 138,321 in 2018. With such a high rate of diagnosis, many patients…
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Collaboration prevents medicine misadventure
27 November 2018
Preventable negative medication events through non-compliance and misadventure are causing increasing concern among health authorities and the Federal Government.And one leading community pharmacist believes better communication between pharmacist and doctors could be a key to addressing the issuesLuke van der…
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Weather warms up for tick bites
19 September 2018
Community pharmacies have a critical role in helping patients suffering from Lyme or Lyme-like disease, or to use the Government’s preferred definition - Debilitating Symptom Complexes Attributed to Ticks.Many of the patients are suspicious of the health profession after often…
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It’s all in the language
21 August 2018
The need to ensure people in the community gain maximum benefit from their medicines through adherence has seen WA pharmacist Hannah Mann and her team develop unique symbols to inform when and how medicines should be taken.Hannah, of Kimberley Pharmacy…
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