August

The Pharmacy Council has removed a controversial change from its revised code of ethics that would have made it ethical for pharmacists to promote products not backed up by evidence of efficacy.

The Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner released two reports in July that were critical of pharmacists over dispensing errors in two unrelated incidents.

Pharmacists and the wider healthcare system around the country were put under pressure by an influx of winter illness

Two young pharmacists represented New Zealand at the recent World Health Assembly in Geneva.

No change has been made to the classification of codeine, but the Medicines Classification Committee (MCC) has posed some questions to the sector that it must answer if some codeine products are to remain pharmacist-only.

Pharmacists are surprised at the result of a study calling for an urgent update to guidelines around the antipsychotic drug clozapine

Aussie pharmacy giant Chemist Warehouse has confirmed they will opening stores in New Zealand at the end of the year.

Manukau Institute of Technology's first level 6 training programme has had positive feedback from the first lot of students to graduate. 

A pharmacist has raised concerns that non-eligible patients are receiving subsidised medicines, and it remains unclear where the responsibility lies in checking who is eligible.