Community Pharmacy

With Woolworths withdrawing its appeal of last year’s High Court ruling on pharmacy ownership, Medsafe is proceeding with changes to pharmacy licencing requirements. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

Pharmacists and pharmacy owners were outraged by cuts to the pharmacy COVID-19 antivirals service. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

IT STARTED WHEN a mobility walker from a deceased estate was donated to Glenn’s Pharmacy in Taradale.

Any builder doing renovations will tell you they won’t know what’s behind a wall until they take it down, and that was certainly the case when renovations began at Clive’s Chemist last week

It is the end of an era for Life Pharmacy Pakuranga in east Auckland as it closes its doors after five decades

Woolworths Pharmacy (formerly Countdown Pharmacy) has withdrawn its appeal of the High Court finding that its pharmacy ownership structure was unlawful

The reduction in funding for the pharmacy COVID-19 antivirals service will undermine community pharmacies’ ability to provide essential health services, writes Bay of Plenty Community Pharmacy Group president Stuart MacDonald 

Pharmacy representatives and contract holders are extremely disappointed by the 2.51 per cent funding boost Te Whatu Ora intends to offer the sector this year

Many pharmacists believe the upcoming reduction in funding for providing COVID-19 antivirals makes the service financially unviable, and some say they may refuse to offer it as a result

A Hawke’s Bay community pharmacy has been helping to redistribute donated mobility equipment to residents in need