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The workforce crisis and related underfunding of the pharmacy sector linger as winter turns to spring, writes editor Jonathan Chilton-Towle

The reduction in funding for the pharmacy COVID-19 antivirals service will undermine community pharmacies’ ability to provide essential health services, writes Bay of Plenty Community Pharmacy Group president Stuart MacDonald 

Clinical pharmacist Katrina Azer ponders what kind of ocean New Zealand’s pharmacy sector is swimming in and whether they are being swept along with the tides or charting their own course

As a pharmacist with a passion for vaccinations and all the public health benefits they bring, I have seen tremendous changes in a pharmacy’s role as the home of preventative medicine

Moore Markhams Auckland director Jonathan Roberts shares some tips for starting a pharmacy business

Kia ora.

Flavoured nicotine pouches are being promoted to young people on social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram

Community pharmacist Claire Salter took part in a full-immersion Māori language course run at the University of Waikato’s Tauranga campus in 2022. She discusses her reasons for learning te reo as a Pākehā. From April, having a basic understanding of te reo Māori will be a requirement for all pharmacists under the Pharmacy Council’s competency standards

One in three Australian adults has high blood pressure (hypertension). Excess salt (sodium) increases the risk of high blood pressure so everyone with hypertension is advised to reduce salt in their diet

Supporters of the new government’s plan to repeal Aotearoa New Zealand’s smokefree legislation have claimed victory against “prohibition”