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IT provider Middleware New Zealand has been selected by Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora to deliver a new shared digital health record data service

Christchurch pharmacy owner Warwick Kerr has retired and passed on the reins of his business after 30 years of serving his community

HIV advocacy organisations say HIV self-screening tests being made available for the first time in New Zealand pharmacies will help normalise testing for HIV and make it more accessible

Racist patients weren’t what a diversity in healthcare panel expected to end up discussing at the Collaborative Aotearoa conference at the weekend

A legislative amendment to remove a long-standing prescribing barrier causing nurse practitioners and other authorised prescribers, including pharmacist prescribers, major issues since the pandemic is being welcomed 

Like a real-life Frodo and Gandalf and the Fellowship of the Ring, leaders of New Zealand’s pharmacy representative groups have combined to form a pharmacy sector supergroup, but rather than battling Sauron, the Pharmacy Sector Leaders Forum will be advocating for pharmacists. 

Cabinet has agreed to change the rules to allow Medsafe to approve new medicines in less than 30 days if the product already has approval from two recognised overseas jurisdictions

A regional analysis of Comprehensive Primary Care Teams has found strong indications that they are reducing avoidable hospital admissions and producing other health benefits

Pharmacists around the motu are busy giving flu vaccinations, as the flu vaccination season began this week on 1 April and runs through to 1 September.  

The new chair of the Pharmacy Council is Ming-chun Wu, a chartered director and teacher