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Wellington pharmacist Laura Dowd works at Clive’s Chemist in Wainuiomata and is planning to head to Australia to take on a PhD at Monash University. There, she hopes to continue her hobby of exploring under the sea. Jonathan Chilton-Towle chats to Laura about scuba-diving

An Otago study estimates up to half of the daily activities of a pharmacy are carried out without remuneration. 

The Pharmaceutical Society is asking the Pharmacy Council to delay its proposed changes to the pharmacist recertification process until 2022 and is backing its request with results from a recent survey of the profession. 

Green Cross Health’s full year financial results prove the company is holding its own despite the intense competition faced by its pharmacy division

The Government has extended the waiver allowing pharmacies to dispense non-NZePS (New Zealand Electronic Prescription Service) prescriptions without a physical prescriber signature for another three months

Wellington pharmacist Laura Dowd works at Clive’s Chemist in Wainuiomata and is planning to head to Australia to take on a PhD at Monash University. There, she hopes to continue her hobby of exploring under the sea. Jonathan Chilton-Towle chats to Laura about scuba-diving

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

Taking over the reins of the well-known Raumati Road Pharmacy on the Kapiti Coast at the height of the COVID-19 lockdown was a mixed bag for new owner Martin Lowis

Unprecedented changes to the way the New Zealand health system is organised are coming and pharmacists need to be involved at the top levels where decisions are made

No pharmacists have been infected with COVID-19 during the pandemic so far, figures from the Ministry of Health show