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A mobile-pharmacist role in the South Island is helping Māori patients get reviews of their medications and understand the reasons for taking them

The pharmacy workforce crisis is becoming especially dire for rural pharmacies Paulette Crowley investigates

The Government’s plan to reinstate the $5 prescription fee for most New Zealanders will lead to an increase in hospitalisations costing the country tens of millions of dollars a year, Te Herenga Waka University of Victoria researchers have found

New Zealand’s oldest pharmacy, John Castle Chemist in Wellington, is surviving challenging times

Two recent pharmacy workforce surveys have highlighted the unsustainable pressures pharmacy workers are facing, as Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

The proportion of COVID-19 vaccinations given by community pharmacies has rocketed ahead of other providers. Pharmacies are also now the second biggest providers of flu jabs. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

Pharmacy owners are calling for their remuneration system to be made simpler after another payment error was uncovered. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

One of the 144 intern pharmacists who passed November’s Assessment Centre has checked and rechecked her emails “quite a few times” since receiving her result on Monday, to make sure she has passed

The Pharmacy Today team wishes all our fabulous readers a restful Christmas and New Year break as we prepare to take our annual summer holiday 

Long-time New Plymouth pharmacist Nico Jacobs had no immediate plans to retire. But business circumstances have seen him go from owner of the city’s only after-hours seven days a week pharmacy to locuming within the space of two months. Jody Hopkinson reports