19 January 2021 - The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia is to be applauded for changing the way pharmacists label the antibiotics they dispense to support best practice antimicrobial prescribing and use.

From this month, antibiotics dispensed by Australian pharmacies will be labelled with instructions that they be taken for a defined number of days according to the prescribers’ instructions and not simply until all the medicine is used, which was the previous advice to consumers.

Read Department of Health press release