Pharmacy technicians down under: the Australian experience

A recent study led by pharmacy technicians in Australia saved thousands of dollars by preventing waste of medicines. The pharmacy technicians achieved this by deploying ward-based educational sessions to the multidisciplinary team. The findings highlighted the importance of pharmacy technicians and provided evidence for an advanced scope pharmacy technician ward role to reduce pharmaceutical wastage. In this podcast we were lucky enough to talk directly to two of the authors Julia Tisdall and Michelle Edmonds in Australia. New and emerging roles for pharmacy technicians in the UK are a hot topic at the moment so I wanted to broaden my horizons and get an Australian perspective of pharmacy technician practice. There are some fascinating differences but also lots we can all learn from each other even this far away geographically.