Website intended for a NZ health professional readership
In response to the Ministry of Health funding telehealth services through pharmacy, Katrina Azer, one of New Zealand’s first digital pharmacists, provides an overview. Ms Azer has been providing telepharmacy as a virtual clinical pharmacist at Tend Health for more than 12 months
1. Health resources and Services Administration: Office for the Advancement of Telehealth. https://www.hrsa.gov/rural-health/telehealth
2. Bultman DC, Svarstad BL. Effects of Pharmacist Monitoring on Patient Satisfaction With Antidepressant Medication Therapy. JAPhA 2002 42(1):36–43.
3. Friesner DL, Scott DM, Rathke AM, Peterson CD, Anderson HC. Do remote community telepharmacies have higher medication error rates than traditional community pharmacies? Evidence from the North Dakota Telepharmacy Project. JAPhA 2011;51:580–90.
4. Ibrahim OM, Ibrahim RM, Abdel-Qader DA, Al Meslamani AZ, Al Mazrouei N. Evaluation of Telepharmacy Services in Light of COVID-19. Telemed J E Health 2021;Jun;27(6):649–56.
5. Pharmacy Council of New Zealand: Competence Standards for the Pharmacy profession.
6. Adepoju OE, Chae M, Liaw W, Angelocci T, Millard P, Matuk-Villazona O. Transition to telemedicine and its impact on missed appointments in community-based clinics. Ann Med 2022;54(1):98–107.
In this article, Sue Frankland looks at the global problem of wastage of medications, including causes such as overprescribing and non-adherence. She also presents information from her master’s dissertation on how people understand, and respond to, medication expiration dates
Why recognising the signs of dehydration is important...
