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In his latest instalment of business advice for pharmacies, Oak Park Chartered Accountants director Hugh Lopdell provides an overview of confidence in the sector at Alert Level 1, where business is getting back to normal in many areas, but others are still lagging well behind last year’s levels

It’s June and we find ourselves bracing for the true impact of the COVID-19 lockdown to hit

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has won global admiration for her personal style. But how will Kiwis judge her government’s performance at the ballot-box in September?

In his latest video, Hugh Lopdell, director of Oak Park Chartered Accountants, talks through the wage subsidy, the small business cash flow loans scheme and other financial help for pharmacists

New York rockers The Strokes were somewhat prescient with the title of their latest album, The New Abnormal, its launch coinciding with their home turf becoming one of the hardest hit by COVID-19

Associate health minister Julie Anne Genter warns of gap in vaccine supply due to extremely high demand

New Zealander and New York City resident Katharine Saxby struggles with the day-to-day reality of a deadly disease on the rampage, with seemingly few resources to halt it

Hugh Lopdell, director of Oak Park Chartered Accountants, talks through the Government’s COVID-19 support for pharmacists and other financial issues facing pharmacists

Young Christchurch pharmacist Laura Pidcock recalls the good, the bad and the chaotic of the past three weeks, while keeping safe in her bubble 

Like many of you in pharmacies, I have found the past few weeks exhausting, unsettling, and as of 23 March, overwhelming and rather frightening