Community Pharmacy

As the demand for COVID-19 vaccinations surged and available appointments on the national booking system dwindled, one Christchurch pharmacy owner decided to take matters into her own hands

Another nationwide lockdown led to a sudden jump in demand for COVID-19 jabs, leaving pharmacy teams around New Zealand scrambling to meet the public’s need to be vaccinated. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

Around 16 per cent of community pharmacies across the country are now involved with the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, but Pharmacy Guild chief executive Andrew Gaudin believes that figure should be much higher

Pharmacy Today reporters Anna Lee and Jonathan Chilton-Towle check in with pharmacists across the country to see how they’re faring in the country’s second national lockdown

Pharmacy Guild chief executive Andrew Gaudin says the new money in the pharmacy-services contract offered by DHBs is the best deal pharmacy owners can get, given the financial pressures DHBs are under. But not all pharmacy owners agree

Another nationwide lockdown led to a sudden jump in demand for COVID-19 jabs, leaving pharmacy teams around New Zealand scrambling to meet the public’s need to be vaccinated. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

The Dunedin pharmacy owner shares his favourite go-to natural elixir to sooth tight and congested chests, and laments one thing every pharmacy owner is all too familiar with: paperwork! 

The day New Zealand learned the country was about to go into Alert Level 4 lockdown was a bittersweet day for pharmacy retail manager Simonne Kainuku

It is too early to know how many patients have undergone potentially life-saving hepatitis C tests in pharmacies under the new Hepatitis C Pharmacy Test and Treat programme but at least one pharmacist is excited to be involved

Pharmacy Guild chief executive Andrew Gaudin says the new money in the pharmacy-services contract offered by DHBs is the best deal pharmacy owners can get, given the financial pressures DHBs are under. But not all pharmacy owners agree