Christchurch’s Urgent Pharmacy and the local Pegasus Health PHO are going through a messy divorce. The separation proceedings began with Pegasus’ decision to move its after-hours doctors’ clinic to a new location, away from the pharmacy.
After a night of glitz and glamour, the New Zealand Pharmacy sector has its new champions, with the night's top award going to a pharmacist who combined her community and clinical skillsets.
Running a dispensary in a tiny room of a historic Christchurch house now converted into a doctor's surgery, Stuart Irvine and his team at Merivale Medical Pharmacy might be working in the smallest pharmacy in New Zealand.
The Pharmacy Council has removed a controversial change from its revised code of ethics that would have made it ethical for pharmacists to promote products not backed up by evidence of efficacy.
The Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner released two reports in July that were critical of pharmacists over dispensing errors in two unrelated incidents.
