The move towards online prescriptions is causing more issues than ever for dispensary teams.

The move towards online prescriptions is causing more issues than ever for dispensary teams.

This month, Unichem Buchanan’s Pharmacy will have been in business for seven decades, reports Jonathan Chilton-Towle

An Auckland pharmacist and academic is concerned the planned roadside drug-testing regime may unfairly inconvenience some drivers appropriately taking prescription medicines. 

FROM NEXT YEAR, Te Whatu Ora will pay graduate pharmacists who choose to work in rural areas nearly $12,000 per year for their first three years of work, to entice them to stay in these hard-to-staff areas.

Antimicrobial resistance has been identified as one of the top-10 threats to human health by WHO, and a small group of hospital pharmacists are leading the charge in New Zealand to combat the growing problem.

Special Authority prescriptions are creating a bureaucratic nightmare for pharmacists and causing delays in patients getting their medicine. Jonathan Chilton-Towle investigates