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Medicinal cannabis should be available through pharmacies before the end of this year, says Sally King who heads the body representing New Zealand’s fledgling medicinal cannabis industry

This morning Pharmac announced most temporary dispensing restrictions in place due to the COVID-19 crisis will end at midnight on 31 July

The Medicines Classification Committee will tomorrow consider a proposal to reclassify the Human Papillomavirus vaccine so pharmacist vaccinators can offer it without a prescription

Chemist Warehouse has opened its first store outside the North Island. 

The Health and Disability System Review panel’s vision for community-based services includes more integration, a funding ringfence and fewer DHBs. Jonathan Chilton-Towle asks what, if anything, it means for the pharmacy sector 

The Department of Corrections and Clendon Pharmacy have been found to have breached a prisoner’s rights following an ongoing medication management failure that led to him being hospitalised four times

The Pharmacy Council is planning big changes to pharmacists’ recertification from 1 April next year. The current points-based competency assessment system is to be replaced with an entirely new “trust and assurance” model. Jonathan Chilton-Towle gauges pharmacists’ reactions to the plan

A reclassification that has made alkyl nitrites (“poppers”) prescription-only has met with fierce resistance from the gay community

The embattled health minister David Clark has resigned

The Pharmacy Council is planning big changes to pharmacists’ recertification from 1 April next year. The current points-based competency assessment system is to be replaced with an entirely new “trust and assurance” model. Jonathan Chilton-Towle gauges pharmacists’ reactions to the plan