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The Ministry of Health has confirmed prescribers will be allowed to send prescriptions to pharmacies via email once analogue fax machines are phased out at the end of this year

Rotorua pharmacy owners were incensed and disappointed when they heard the Lakes DHB had approved a Countdown Pharmacy opening in their city

The $5 prescription fee is known to be a barrier to patients accessing medicines; but, for the first time, a University of Otago study is measuring the impact the fees have on patients’ health

The body representing New Zealand’s fledgling medicinal cannabis industry is welcoming the long-awaited regulations that will govern the sector

Former Pharmaceutical Society president Elizabeth Plant has joined a new Bay of Plenty-based medicinal cannabis venture, Eqalis

Rhiannon Braund has become the first female pharmacist to be made a professor at the University of Otago

Several “detox” and diet teas have been revealed to contain sennosides, a pharmacy-only medicine, and pulled from the shelves, following a Consumer NZ investigation

The body representing New Zealand’s fledgling medicinal cannabis industry is welcoming the long-awaited regulations that will govern the sector.

Countdown will open four new pharmacies in the first half of this year, bringing the total number of Countdown pharmacies to 34 nationwide

Email may be used to send signed prescriptions, as long as the email service meets the ministry’s security requirements