SHPA has welcomed the release of yesterday’s New South Wales (NSW) Budget 2023-24, handed down by Treasurer Daniel Mookhey, which features a more than $14 billion healthcare investment into staff retention and recruitment, and upgrading of hospital facilities.
Medication safety has been highlighted again as the World Health Organization (WHO) marked its annual World Patient Safety Day on Sunday 17 September 2023. With a theme ‘Engaging patients for patient safety’, SHPA’s Medication Safety Leadership Committee marked the day by releasing its second annual Medication Safety series.
SHPA welcomes yesterday’s announcement that Tasmanian pharmacists will soon be part of a new pilot program to prescribe medicines for aged care patients, and to patients in remote areas with limited access to general practitioners.
The largest ever Australian Injectable Drugs Handbook (AIDH) has been released by SHPA, with the new ninth edition of the essential frontline nursing resource featuring more than 500 medicines.
An updated Australian pharmacy practice standard for mental health has been released by SHPA, with new key features including a list of essential and emerging services, and guidance on the provision of mental health pharmacy services in diverse population groups.
Professional collaboration and the advancement of practice in Australian and New Zealand pharmacy is a step closer today after the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between SHPA and the New Zealand Hospital Pharmacy Association (NZHPA).
The final keynote speaker has been announced and abstracts accepted as SHPA counts down to Medicines Management 2023, the 47th SHPA National Conference (MM2023), 2-4 November in Cairns.
SHPA has welcomed the Albanese Labor Government’s scope of practice review, as the organisation continues to champion pharmacist-led prescribing practices in collaborative care settings.
The Geriatric Therapeutics Review has been crucial to progress in medicines safety in aged care in Australia for almost 40 years.
MedsAware 2023: Deprescribing Action Week launched today across Australia, driving conversations around discontinuing medicines that are no longer required, or for which the risk of harm outweighs the benefits in the individual.
SHPA has welcomed the release of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia’s Professional Practice Standards as an important revision to a key document underpinning pharmacy practice in Australia.
SHPA, in partnership with The Alfred, has launched a National Credential recognising Partnered Pharmacist Medication Charting(PPMC), an innovative care model proven to reduce medication errors, length of stay and hospital costs
