PDL Professional Officers continue to receive enquiries and incident reports that have contributing factors such as pressure, stress, workload or fatigue.
PDL recognises the high demands placed on community and hospital pharmacists including interns, pharmacy owners and other staff members have not eased. The ongoing staffing challenge is impacting pharmacists in the community and hospital pharmacy sectors and unfortunately, these workload and capacity issues seem likely to continue.
Furthermore, recent changes to services such as the opioid dependence treatment program and f…