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Pharmacy owners are calling for their remuneration system to be made simpler after another payment error was uncovered. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

Kia ora.

Pharmacy owners are calling for their remuneration system to be made simpler after another payment error was uncovered. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

The ACT Party’s election promise to return pseudoephedrine to pharmacy shelves is one step closer to fruition after the law change passed its first reading in Parliament on 20 February.

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.

PHARMAC HAS DELAYED making a decision on its proposal to remove the restriction on pharmacist vaccinators giving childhood vaccines. 

The Pharmacy Council is going ahead with its proposed $75 increase to the Annual Practising Certificate fee this year, despite opposition from the profession.

Some pharmacist vaccinators are concerned Te Whatu Ora is not doing enough to protect their privacy after the recent data breach

The Health and Disability Commissioner has criticised a pharmacy for a dispensing error that resulted in a child’s hospitalisation after being mistakenly given an antipsychotic medication instead of an antihistamine

The ACT Party’s election promise to return pseudoephedrine to pharmacy shelves is one step closer to fruition after the law change passed its first reading at Parliament on 20 February