Pharmacy Practice

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

Healthcare and support workers face many hazards, one of which is accidental exposure to blood and body fluids. Clinical microbiologist Aaron Keene reviews the precautions and procedures you should have in place

As pseudoephedrine-related crime is expected to rise with the return of products to pharmacy shelves, a New Zealand pharmaceutical company has created a pseudoephedrine product that is more difficult to use to manufacture methamphetamine

A pharmacy that mistakenly dispensed a fast-release insulin pen instead of a slow-release pen has been found to have breached a patient’s rights by the health and disability commissioner

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

There is a question mark over how pharmacies will continue to be funded to provide COVID-19 antivirals without a prescription from the start of next month

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

This article is a summary of the work completed to date by the Environmental Pharmacy Initiative Committee, with an explanation of why the healthcare impact on climate change is important and ways we can contribute towards sustainable pharmacy

In this article, speech language therapist Bridget McArthur examines at the foundation for gaining informed consent, particularly for those with communication difficulties

In this article, Sue Frankland looks at the global problem of wastage of medications, including causes such as overprescribing and non-adherence. She also presents information from her master’s dissertation on how people understand, and respond to, medication expiration dates