Your medication support network with you every step of the way.

Servicing the wider community with their medication needs and education.

 

WHAT WE DO

Our services

A Friendly Pharmacist services span widely but all with the same goal in mind, to improve medication awareness in the community

 
 

Medication Reviews

 
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Medication Guides

 

Intern Pharmacists Mentoring

 
A Friendly Pharmacist Services

Medication Awareness Courses

 

OUR MEDICATION GUIDES

Make sure you are well informed with our quick reference guides.

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DID YOU KNOW?

The facts

 
 

25%

Of people living in inner regional Australia were supplied with five or more medication types, compared to 17.4% living in major cities.

 
 

16%

Adults who experienced bodily pain in the last four weeks had a higher average number of medication types than those who did not experience bodily pain.

 
 

72%

(72.1%) of people aged 75 years and over were supplied with five or more different medication types and on average were supplied with almost eight.

 

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Asthma can be caused by many different things in different people. It is a hereditary condition which means that there is a genetic component to the disease. It can also be caused by autoimmune conditions, this means that your body's immune system gets triggered somehow and causes your body to create mucus and inflammation in the airways, hence asthma. Allergic rhinitis or hayfever is also closely linked to asthma.

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I am a very organised person and when it comes to health and wellbeing whilst traveling I try to think ahead of all the possible scenarios that I might be put in that do not need hospital but also need pharmacy type products quickly. 

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There are over 70 different types of Tick in Australia, they are most prevalent on the East Coast of Australia. About 17 different types are able to bite humans.

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