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Pharmac is preparing to fund more brands of the hormone replacement treatment oestradiol in response to an ongoing supply shortage. 

Smoking, vaping, junk food and alcohol were up for scrutiny at Health Coalition Aotearoa’s political panel on prevention, held this morning in Wellington

More than 60,000 minor ailments consults have been carried out by community pharmacies since the programme started less than two months ago

As hospital emergency departments are overwhelmed by a record influx of patients this winter, pharmacists are calling for the minor ailments scheme to be urgently expanded nationwide

Kia ora.

A small survey of members conducted recently by the Independent Pharmacists Association of New Zealand (IPANZ) shows more than half of the 52 members surveyed are considering changing careers away from community pharmacy.

COUNTDOWN WILL APPEAL the High Court decision in which its pharmacy ownership structure was ruled unlawful.

THE MANAGER of UFS Pharmacy Wellington says the council’s Let’s Get Wellington Moving plan was the final nail in the coffin for the 130-year-old business.

The deputy health and disability commissioner has asked a pharmacist to apologise to a deceased patient’s family and told a pharmacy to amend its procedures after the pharmacist failed to pick up an intern’s dispensing error.

THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY has appointed Helen Morgan-Banda as its new chief executive.