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For decades, a paper based system has underpinned Australia's strict medicines and poisons regulations. Within this system, doctors have no way of knowing if patients seeking controlled medicines are living with an undiagnosed addiction and securing multiple doses of the same drug from different practices. Often, prescribing doctors say ‘yes’ and write a script because…
18 Feb 2021, by Amy SarcevicBanking & Finance
Legal
Australia may see a resurgence in financial and economic abuse if the Senate opts to scrap responsible lending obligations (RLO), warns Gerard Brody of the Consumer Action Law Centre. The move to weaken RLOs was made by Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg in September last year, in a bid to maintain credit flow in the wake…
17 Feb 2021, by Amy SarcevicEducation
School principal Tina King still vividly recalls the day a recently qualified teacher knocked on her office door and began sobbing. Just months into the role, pressures from parents, students, and impending exams had begun to feel overwhelming – her last hope to purge all in an impromptu meeting with her boss. “It was heartbreaking,”…
16 Feb 2021, by Amy SarcevicEducation
Working with 26 Victorian schools during last year’s forced closures, award-winning educator, Karen Money, made one clear observation about remote learning: that some students thrived with the added autonomy, whilst others lagged without in-person teacher support. “The polarity really struck me,” she said ahead of The Age Schools Summit. “Some students flourished when they were…
4 Feb 2021, by Amy SarcevicHealthcare
Technology
Right patient, right time, right method, right dose and – last but not least - the right medication. When it comes to administering pharmaceuticals in health care settings, there are many different avenues for clinical error - especially when visual checks are used to inspect product labels, eMARs, and NMICs. These errors occur in around…
1 Feb 2021, by Amy Sarcevic