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ReCare, a digital tool that helps pharmacies offer more clinical services, is now serving as a prompt for pharmacists to talk to unvaccinated patients and alert them to potential medicine harm incidents

A pharmacist has been censured and fined $2000 by the Health Practitioner’s Disciplinary Tribunal for practising without an Annual Practising Certificate and providing incorrect information to the Pharmacy Council

The first pharmacy teams around New Zealand have started to receive their COVID-19 vaccinations. 

An Auckland pharmacist has been publicly named and had her practising certificate suspended pending an investigation

Counties Manukau DHB is considering whether to step in to provide community pharmacy and GP ­services in the event that private businesses collapse

Ngā Kaitiaki o Te Puna Rongoā o Aotearoa –Māori Pharmacists’ Association president Kevin Pewhairangi is concerned the Pharmacy Council did not take a partnership approach to developing its new recertification framework for pharmacists

Pharmacists and pharmacy staff will be offered COVID-19 vaccinations later this month

Unichem Hickeys Pharmacy in Ōrewa became one of the few pharmacies to experience what business owners dread – being visited by a customer with COVID-19.  Owner Ken Hickey speaks to Jonathan Chilton-Towle about how he and his team dealt with the aftermath,  and offers tips for how to cope

Shortages of OTC pharmacy products created by COVID-19 last year are not letting up, but an importer of major brands is hopeful the situation will improve this year

Counties Manukau DHB is considering whether to step in to provide community pharmacy and GP ­services in the event that private businesses collapse