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Whether it’s frantically calling around for a locum while your wife is giving birth, delivering meds at midnight with your children asleep in the back of the car, or bringing your nanny to work so you can keep your business afloat while breastfeeding – how are parents who are active pharmacists, doing? And what could the sector do better to support them? Jody Hopkinson reports

Health minister Simeon Brown, in a speech to yesterday’s NZ Infrastructure Investment Summit, told delegates that Budget 2024 had delivered a $16.68 billion funding uplift over three years

Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora is considering how it can continue funding comprehensive primary care teams, with health minister Simeon Brown saying practices can use their recent capitation funding boost to keep the teams going after allocated funding expires in June

Two Kiwi pharmacists are fronting an ad campaign encouraging foreign pharmacists to work in Nova Scotia. Jody Hopkinson spoke to one of them, Sabrena Fu, about practising pharmacy in Canada

A review of job cuts within the Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora data and digital team is underway to ensure there is no impact on frontline healthcare, according to health minister Simeon Brown 

New Zealand Primary Healthcare Awards | He Tohu Mauri Ora entries have been extended, reports Jonathan Chilton-Towle

Jody Hopkinson speaks to Firas Mudafar, an Auckland-based pharmacist and owner of Onehunga Family Pharmacy. He also works as a business strategist and coach in the health sector

A Herculean cross-sector collaborative effort saw the opening of Waikato University’s postgraduate pharmacy programme on 26 February. Jody Hopkinson reports

A new 24/7 online medical service is set to receive $164.6 million over five years. But not everyone is sold on the merits of the proposal

Clinical pharmacist and Pharmacy Today columnist Katrina Azer has been named one of the world’s top 50 most influential pharmacists.