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In January and February, SHPA will donate 10% of all event registration fees to the Community Enterprise Foundation’s National Bushfire Disaster Appeal and WIRES for wildlife relief.

The Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (AHHA) has prepared and shared a summary of this week's Commonwealth Department of Health stakeholder briefing, with the aim of ensuring coordinated health response to the ongoiung bushfire crisis.

SHPA has launched its long-awaited online medicines information training resource for 2020, with discounted access for members, while backing calls to strengthen Australia’s medicines information pharmacist workforce.

A new blueprint for emergency medicine pharmacy services to improve patient care in Australia’s emergency departments, including 1:10 pharmacist-patient ratios, has been released by SHPA and backed by the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.

Better use of existing funding, leveraging digital health, and empowering consumers and the workforce were the themes resonating at a forum of stakeholders representing the breadth of health care, including government and consumers, held in Canberra today.

‘Managing pain and opioid medicines’ features five questions to ask before leaving hospital with opioids, tips for taking and storing opioids at home and a personal pain management plan guide.

SHPA has welcomed the Morrison Government’s $537 million response to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety Interim Report, while reiterating the need for embedded pharmacist positions in the aged care setting.

For the first time, the PSA Offshore Refresher Conference will feature dedicated hospital pharmacy sessions, including presentations on medicines shortages and pharmacist prescribing presented by SHPA. Through the MoU signed with PSA this year, SHPA members now have access to the discounted PSA member rate!

The Gala Dinner concluding Australia’s largest annual scientific pharmacy conference saw Jacinta Castello named 2019 SHPA Resident of the Year, with the SHPA Members’ Awards going to Dr Jacinta Johnson (Emerging Leader), Gemma Kemsley (Technician) and TOPCare Cardiology Project, Ballarat (Hospital Team).

The latest issue of Pharmacy GRIT explores the central challenge of balancing the efficacy and safety of medicines, from a range of member perspectives.

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Commonwealth Department of Health Briefing: Bushfires, smoke and heat

The following summary was prepared by the Australian Hospitals and Healthcare Association.

National Incident Room has been operational since November, with activity stepped up since 1 January.

Commonwealth Department of Health has participated this week in the National Crisis Committee meeting, with the aim of ensuring coordinated health response

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Cut through ‘information overload’: SHPA launches new EMIT resource, calls for meds info support

The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA) has launched its long-awaited online medicines information training resource for 2020, while backing calls to strengthen Australia’s medicines information pharmacist workforce.

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Call for 1 to 10 pharmacist ratio to improve care in Australia’s emergency departments

A new blueprint for emergency medicine pharmacy services to improve patient care while reducing total service cost in Australia’s emergency departments and short stay units, including 1:10 pharmacist-patient ratios, has been released today by the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA).

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