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A pharmacist-led charity is saving good medications and supplies from going into landfills and sending them to be of use overseas. 

The Health and Disability Commissioner has found two psychiatric social workers breached the rights of a man who was suffering from schizophrenia and took his own life in 2016 

Three hundred Health New Zealand leaders ate $9000 of canapés at a national conference as the current financial crisis engulfing hospitals was looming

Australia wants to lure more specialist GPs from New Zealand, with a loosening of registration rules by the country’s health ministers 

Waikato University’s inaugural postgraduate course is already two-thirds full, ahead of enrolments officially opening

The pharmacy community is mourning Philip Berry, a well-known entrepreneur and mentor for many pharmacy owners

A rogue Australian telehealth provider has pulled out of the New Zealand market after receiving a warning from Medsafe

A new advertising campaign featuring famous New Zealanders aims to reduce the social stigma around herpes and could lead more people into pharmacies to have the virus treated.  

A pharmacist who mistakenly dispensed the wrong inflammatory bowel medication at a time when her pharmacy was short-staffed has been criticised by the Health and Disability Commissioner

Researchers who detected a sharp reduction in New Zealand’s high rate of prescribing puberty blocking drugs for gender dysphoria in young people speculate that growing caution overseas may be a factor