Citation-backed writing for and from Australian community pharmacy. New essays as we have something worth saying.
Australian pharmacists got prescribing authority. The clinical record didn't follow.
Queensland made expanded scope permanent. Victoria made every stream permanent. NSW is moving to full scope. But the consultation note lives in one system and the dispense lives in another, and the patient is joined in neither. Why that split is about to get expensive.
Read →Overflow capacity in Australian community pharmacy
Hospitals built surge capacity. General practice built after-hours. Community pharmacy never built anything. When the bench is overloaded the only release valves are still the same two it had thirty years ago. Why that gap is becoming uneconomic to leave open.
Read →Every adjacent industry got rebuilt around AI. Dispensing didn't.
Square, Stripe, Harvey, Abridge: every adjacent industry got rebuilt in the last fifteen years. Pharmacy quietly didn't. Why the dispensing system stayed stuck on 1990s architecture, and what's finally changing the math.
Read →A 2026 look at Australian pharmacist burnout
Approximately 1 in 2 pharmacists report burnout. Approximately 9 in 10 CDSS alerts get overridden. The tools meant to be the safety net have become the noise the bench has to filter. What the data says, and what comes next.
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