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Another nationwide lockdown led to a sudden jump in demand for COVID-19 jabs, leaving pharmacy teams around New Zealand scrambling to meet the public’s need to be vaccinated. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

Pharmacy Guild chief executive Andrew Gaudin says the new money in the pharmacy-services contract offered by DHBs is the best deal pharmacy owners can get, given the financial pressures DHBs are under. But not all pharmacy owners agree

Another nationwide lockdown led to a sudden jump in demand for COVID-19 jabs, leaving pharmacy teams around New Zealand scrambling to meet the public’s need to be vaccinated. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

It is too early to know how many patients have undergone potentially life-saving hepatitis C tests in pharmacies under the new Hepatitis C Pharmacy Test and Treat programme but at least one pharmacist is excited to be involved

The day New Zealand learned the country was about to go into Alert Level 4 lockdown was a bittersweet day for pharmacy retail manager Simonne Kainuku

A former Pharmaceutical Society president turned medicinal cannabis entrepreneur is calling for ACC and the Ministry of Social Development to form coherent policies on funding of prescribed medicinal cannabis products.

The New Zealand Medical Association has made a formal submission objecting to a proposed expansion of medicines pharmacist prescribers can prescribe.

Pharmacists being able to dispense the gout prevention medication allopurinol without a prescription is one step closer to reality following the latest Medicines Classification Committee meeting.

Two bids to widen access to higherstrength doses of ibuprofen have been declined by the Medicines Classification Committee.

The Pharmacy Guild has posted a solid financial performance in the past financial year, despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.