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The Ministry of Health’s plans for the New Zealand pharmacy sector can be summed up in two words: medicines optimisation

The Ministry of Health’s plans for the New Zealand pharmacy sector can be summed up in two words: medicines optimisation

The online platform supporting the Pharmacy Council’s pharmacist recertification in New Zealand is nearing completion this month

Former Pharmaceutical Society president Ian McMichael has moved his ­award-winning Pharmacy 547 in central Hamilton and merged its staff and services with nearby Anglesea Pharmacy

Community pharmacy staff will likely be prioritised to receive early vaccinations when stocks of Pfizer’s new COVID-19 vaccine enter the country soon

The Ministry of Health has ­revealed only 4150 of 350,000 MMR vaccines bought last year for a targeted programme have been administered since July 2020, and only 45 by pharmacist vaccinators 

A new set of competency standards for pharmacist prescribers is unlikely to attract flak when it comes into force next month

The Pharmacy Guild will ask DHBs to boost funding to cover the expected rise in costs created for pharmacy owners by the Government’s proposed expansion of sick leave entitlements. 

The holidays are over and around New Zealand kids are heading back to the classroom. Pharmacy owner HeeSeung Lee speaks to reporter Jonathan Chilton-Towle about common ailments children might encounter at school and what pharmacy staff can do to help parents protect them