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The Pharmacy Today office will be closed until 7 January for a summer break as our staff scarper to the four corners of our beautiful country to enjoy the surf, sun and sausages.

The Medicines Classification Committee has recommended melatonin prolonged release 2mg be reclassified from a prescription medicine to a medicine that can be dispensed by specialty-trained pharmacists 

The new president of the Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand hopes to enable others around his board table to shine their lights as brightly as possible. 

If cigarette sales were restricted to pharmacies, smokers buying tobacco could be given smoking-cessation counselling and nicotine-replacement therapy

Nelson Marlborough DHB pharmacy staff called off the strike action planned last month after receiving an offer from the DHB

Pharmacy Guild chief executive Andrew Gaudin is the sole pharmacy representative on the board of the new “voice of primary care”

The results of the annual Moore Stephens Markhams pharmacy benchmarking survey are in, and it isn’t good news for the sector

The University of Otago has revamped its postgraduate pharmacy qualification, with the aim of ensuring pharmacists are highly skilled in medicines optimisation

From creating prescribing protocols to educating nurses about medicines, an Auckland pharmacy is pioneering offering clinical pharmacy services to three private hospitals

Increased costs for employing resthome workers have contributed to a fall in profits for Green Cross Health