Pharmacy Practice

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

Practices may rethink whether they can afford to carry on with immunisation monitoring and recalls if parents opt to go to community pharmacies for infant vaccinations, says an RNZCGP submission

Pharmacists can now learn about the emerging field of pharmacogenetics through an online course developed by a Kiwi expert in the field. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

Pharmacists can now learn about the emerging field of pharmacogenetics through an online course developed by a Kiwi expert in the field. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

Specialist GP Jo Scott-Jones looks at ways to maximise trust in healthcare, during a period of general mistrust among society

Pharmacist Lieutenant William Lusher is part of a tri-service medical unit supporting the country’s armed forces. He talks to Natasha Jojoa Burling about work, exercise and the importance of maintaining healthy relationships

The University of Waikato is planning on opening a new pharmacy school, despite falling numbers of pharmacy students nationwide. Natasha Jojoa Burling reports

Psychologist Janet Peters looks at the importance of using language that promotes respect, abilities and uniqueness when communicating with patients