The Pharmacy Defence Association is criticising the Pharmacy Council for its handling of the disciplinary action resulting from the case of prescription fraud that caught up multiple pharmacists in 2017.
The Pharmacy Defence Association is criticising the Pharmacy Council for its handling of the disciplinary action resulting from the case of prescription fraud that caught up multiple pharmacists in 2017.
Auckland pharmacy academic Amy Chan, Ngā Kaitiaki o te Puna Rongoā president Mariana Hudson and Auckland pharmacist Natalia Nu’u have been appointed to the Pharmacy Council.
Pharmacist prescribers have had the list of drugs they can prescribe expanded for the first time since their role was established. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports
AFT Pharmaceuticals has asked the Medicines Classification Committee to reclassify ibuprofen 300mg in powder form as a pharmacist-only medicine, but the Pharmaceutical Society is not so sure.
COVID-19 lockdowns have made it difficult to get a pioneering hepatitis C pharmacy programme going, but momentum is building. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports
Research led by Samoan and Cook Islands Māori academics has found that a traditional Samoan medicinal plant is as effective as ibuprofen for treating inflammation.
