Canterbury

Canterbury community pharmacies have begun using a shared electronic platform to better serve their opioid substitution therapy patients and save time and energy for clinicians

The second staff member from the Christchurch Managed Isolation Facility who tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday visited the Chemist Warehouse at the South City mall between 3.52pm and 4:03pm on Saturday 30 October.

Departing DHB pharmacy lead Carolyn Gullery says the major barrier to pharmacists offering more clinical services is the outdated and inflexible electronic payment system used to pay them

David Meates has resigned as chief executive of the Canterbury and West Coast district health boards (DHBs)

Life Pharmacy Barrington have completely changed the way they do business to help stop the spread of the Covid-19 virus.

The Canterbury Community Pharmacy Group is linking patients who have difficulty speaking English with pharmacists who speak their language and help them understand their medicines

A central Christchurch pharmacy is trialling pedal power to ensure its resthome medicine deliveries arrive on time

A pharmacist detailed Christchurch Hospital pharmacy’s response to the chaos and trauma of the mosque shootings on 15 March to a captivated audience at the NZHPA conference.

Dispensing medicines from a tent with an upturned cardboard box for a counter is a far cry from Carolyn Oakley-Brown’s usual dispensing experience

Central TAS has released a long-awaited report into the 20 DHBs’ local commissioning spend under the 2018 ICPSA. Pharmacy Today reporter Jonathan Chilton-Towle looks at how much new cash has gone to pharmacy