In this podcast, Kylie Neville, PDL professional officer, is joined by two highly experienced industry leaders in pharmaceutical compounding: Patricia Ullmann and Marina Holt.

They delve into topics relating to risk awareness and risk management in compounding of medicines. The aim is to highlight areas where practitioners can improve safety and reduce unwanted outcomes through greater focus on good compounding practices.

Among the topics covered:

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AJP Podcast presenter Carlene McMaugh discusses the Complete Care Pharmacy model with pharmacy owner, Kristina Fox. 

The Rosny Park pharmacy reopened under the Complete Care Pharmacy brand in September 2023 with a unique design (1 min 13) that Fox says is already delivering for patients and the business.  

Topics discussed include: 

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Professor, pharmacist and current acting director of the Monash Addiction Research Centre Suzanne Nielsen says it’s important to get key information to patients who need it… and tailored to them.

Nielsen talks us through the development of the Opioid Safety Toolkit, which was designed specifically for patients prescribed opioids for pain, and the importance of raising awareness of opioid side-effects and reliance.

“Very few” people who might meet the criteria for opioid use disorder had ever asked for help, or even spoken to a health care provider about their concerns, she says.

“For whatever reason, those good conversations were just not happening,” Nielsen says. “And a lot of that we understand was around things like either stigma or patient fear or just a lack of awareness.”

03.38 – How can pharmacists support these patients?

5.05 – How can patients easily navigate through the toolkit?

06.40 – How have patient attitudes towards naloxone changed since deaths with novel synthetic opioids?

09.13 – What sort of questions might people as about naloxone?

12.13 – How can pharmacists encourage at-risk patients or their families to get naloxone?

14.55 – How can pharmacists be resourced?

18.13 – How to have these conversations with patients

21.29 – What about people taking opioids long-term?

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AJP Podcast presenter Carlene McMaugh discusses the Eight Community Pharmacy Agreement (8CPA) and the Strategic Agreement on Pharmacist Professional Practice, with the former Pharmacy Guild of Australia vice president, Paul Sinclair. 

Having led the Guild’s negotiating team for the 6CPA, Sinclair lauded the 8CPA negotiating team for their efforts in securing the new deal with the government (1 min 28). 

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AJP Podcast presenter Carlene McMaugh discusses the Eighth Community Pharmacy Agreement (8CPA), 60-day dispensing and the government’s recent vaping reforms with the Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s chief negotiator Anthony Tassone. 

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Pharmacists, pharmacy assistants, and pharmacy students who are struggling with mental health and professional issues can access peer-to-peer support through the Pharmacists’ Support Service (PSS) on 1300 244 910 between 8am and 11pm AEDT.  

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AJP Podcast presenter Carlene McMaugh talks with Amandeep Doll the head of professional belonging and engagement at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society about the challenges pharmacists face when it comes to starting a family while maintaining a career.

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In this issue of the AJP podcast, Curtis Ruhnau, president of the Pharmacists Support Service (PSS) and community pharmacy owner, talks to podcast host Carlene McMaugh about a host of topics, including:

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AJP Podcast presenter Carlene McMaugh talks with Paul Hedley the principal partner of Hedley Partners about the 8CPA and its impact on the pharmacy market. 

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AJP Podcast presenter Carlene McMaugh talks with Victorian community pharmacist, Gordon Ngan, about pharmacy ownership. 

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Consultant pharmacist of the year Brooke Shelly talks with AJP Podcast Carlene McMaugh about her “portfolio career” – what it’s like wearing many hats, from working in a GP surgery, to performing HMRs and RMMRs, and moving into the research arena.

She says that the new agreements offer a lot of hope for innovation in rural health, with the new PSA strategic agreement becoming a new home for professional pharmacist services.

“For so long it has been a challenge to have remuneration structures within a Community Pharmacy Agreement that directly affect pharmacists that don’t work within or have a connection to community, it has actually never made sense.

“It’s also really impacted with conversation with government,” she says.

The new agreements will also help pharmacists have their voices heard by other health professionals, she says – and it’s “beyond exciting”.

The pair also talk about what it’s like living in a small town, building rapport with patients – “I see them at the footy and I see them at the supermarket” – as well as other health colleagues, and how taking on many roles can result in a varied and professionally satisfying career.

“Soft skills are really essential in being able to be adaptable, in terms of how to have tricky conversations, how to maintain rapport with another health professional whilst disagreeing, how to build relationships quickly all, that sort of thing will allow you to be able to step into different roles with relative ease,” she says, offering advice for pharmacists keen to take on a portfolio career.

This means putting yourself into situations and conversations which may not come naturally, she says.

“It’s also about saying yes to any opportunity that comes your way, or better yet, creating those opportunities yourself.”

“It is a really exciting time to be a pharmacist and if you have capacity to contribute to the change and the transformation that needs to happen in our profession, then put your hand up and be part of it.”

4.32 – What is a portfolio pharmacist – how did these opportunities come about and how do you balance them all?

8.54 – On winning the Consultant of the Year Award and “standing on the shoulders of giants”

10.40 – Advice on a portfolio career

15.30 – Inequities in rural health and how the new pharmacy agreements could make a change

22.45 – What would you like to see from the strategic agreements?

24.53 – How do pharmacists get on board with the new areas of practice?

28.35 – On pharmacist prescribing – and is there really a turf war between professions?

31.02 – Better utilisation of telehealth for credentialled pharmacists

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