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Associate health minister David Seymour says the Coalition Government is committed to ensuring Pharmac’s budget “remains and is sustained”

The Australian and New Zealand College of Advanced Pharmacy has welcomed its 1000th member

Cutting one in four staff at the Ministry of Health will potentially be “punishing” for remaining staff and result in valuable skills being lost, a health systems academic says

Pharmaceutical Society members have until 28 March to elect a new board member for the national executive

The health select committee has recommended that the legislation to return pseudoephedrine to pharmacy shelves proceed to its second reading without changes

Pharmacist vaccinators have been given the green light to offer several childhood immunisations

Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand’s error in calculating pharmacy payments has left 186 pharmacies out of pocket by a combined total of $775,000 and all other pharmacies were overpaid by the same amount

Graduate pharmacists starting work in rural areas have six weeks to apply for bonding payments worth nearly $20,000 if they continue to work in those areas for the first three to five years of their career

Canterbury Community Pharmacy Group general manager Aarti Patel has retired after nearly eight years in the role

Pharmacy owners say the sector needs a greater funding increase than previous years to stay sustainable, but they are not hopeful that the 2024 National Annual Agreement Review will achieve this