Community Pharmacy

Despite the closure of some pharmacies, the number of new pharmacies opening this year looks set to far surpass the annual rate of new pharmacy ventures in recent years

Pharmacy retail sales have had mixed results this year, according to one expert, due to lockdown-related distortions to some categories, the ongoing spread of discount pharmacies, and a lift in domestic discretionary spending. Anna Lee reports

From eating her way through Cuisine magazine’s Top 100 Restaurants to her “nothing is too gross” outlook, Angela Liu gives Anna Lee a snapshot of her life as a busy Wellington pharmacy owner, her dream job

Matthew Heke shares the story of his trailblazing pāpara (father) Hiwinui Heke who was Aotearoa’s first Māori pharmacist. Anna Lee reports

Lessons learned in multicultural neighbourhoods of London, have been brought home and applied to services for Pacific people and other ethnic minority groups in the Waikato region. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

A former Auckland pharmacy owner has been censured and ordered to pay $20,000 in costs after he claimed for repeat prescriptions patients did not collect and flushed medication down the toilet

Pharmacies around New Zealand are stepping up to protect the wider New Zealand public against COVID-19 as group 4 vaccinations begin

The National Hepatitis C Action Plan, which reveals how New Zealand will eliminate hepatitis C as a major public health threat by 2030, was officially launched today at Anglesea Pharmacy in Hamilton, on World Hepatitis Day

Sixty-four northern region pharmacies are now funded to detect and treat potentially life-threatening hepatitis C infections

Geraldine pharmacists have downed pills and headed out to the local community vaccination clinic to help get their community vaccinated against COVID-19