Community Pharmacy

A Hawke’s Bay pharmacy technician lost her home in Cyclone Gabrielle while recovering from cancer, but has been buoyed by community support

FOLLOWING THE DISASTER, pharmacy sector leaders have been meeting with health authorities to organise support for disaster-affected pharmacies.

After Cyclone Gabrielle battered Aotearoa New Zealand’s northeastern regions last month, pharmacists in affected areas mounted a heroic effort to ensure their communities stayed supplied with vital medicines. Paulette Crowley and Jonathan Chilton-Towle report on some of those stories

The Chemist Warehouse are advertising they’ve saved New Zealander’s $42 million while community pharmacies close as they can’t absorb the costs of prescription co-payments 

PHARMACISTS SAY they are receiving written discharge summaries from hospitals that are recommending patients to get their prescriptions filled at discount pharmacies for free prescriptions.

Thousands of Kiwi women have signed a petition to Pharmac seeking fully funded oestrogen gels. Paulette Crowley reports 

Thousands of Kiwi women have signed a petition to Pharmac seeking fully funded oestrogen gels. Paulette Crowley reports

Peter Balle is being remembered as a long-serving Auckland community pharmacist, a devoted father, a lover of good food, wine, and a good laugh. 

Virtual clinical pharmacist Katrina Azer works at Tend, a digital health provider with 17 general practices that see pharmacists as crucial parts of a collaborative primary healthcare team

Not many 23-year-olds would consider owning their own business, but Christchurch pharmacy intern Micah Woodfield has done just that