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ALLIED HEALTH WORKERS including hospital pharmacists, represented by the New Zealand Public Service Association and the Association of Professional and Executive Employees (APEX) have voted overwhelmingly to accept the pay equity deal offered by Te Whatu Ora.

Pharmacy sector representatives are disappointed Te Whatu Ora has not budged from the 5 per cent funding increase it put on the table at the start of pharmacy contract talks.

PHARMACIES SUPPLYING COVID19 antivirals are now limited to claiming for shorter consultations and can no longer be paid to provide in-home visits.

AFT Pharmaceuticals has been found by the High Court at Auckland to have breached its fiduciary duty to PBL Solutions over the development of the drug Pascomer, although the court also found no dishonest conduct on the part of AFT

Allied health workers including hospital pharmacists, represented by the New Zealand Public Service Association have voted overwhelmingly to accept the pay equity deal offered by Te Whatu Ora

Pharmacy sector representatives are disappointed Te Whatu Ora has not budged from the 5 per cent funding increase it put on the table at the start of pharmacy contract talks

University of Auckland health economics chair Paula Lorgelly says Pharmac’s recent email scandal has come at a monumentally bad time and “completely detracts” from the agency’s work

NZ First health spokesperson Jenny Marcroft says her party will not scrap Pharmac without having an alternative in place, and work needs to be done on what this looks like

The minor parties are offering a grab-bag of policies that will affect pharmacy ahead of the election

Special Authority prescriptions are creating a bureaucratic nightmare for pharmacists and causing delays in patients getting their medicine. Jonathan Chilton-Towle investigates