Community Pharmacy

Jo Hikaka, pharmacist and past president of Ngā Kaitiaki o te Puna Rongoā – the Māori Pharmacists Association, talks about her latest research on equitable access to medicines 

Screening for hepatitis C needs to be rolled out in pharmacy and needle exchange programmes if New Zealand wants to eliminate the life-threatening disease, says Ed Gane, a liver specialist and co-author of a study published in the New Zealand Medical Journal

The reins of managing the community pharmacy based at Palmerston North Hospital have been taken up by the MidCentral DHB after it decided not to renew the lease for the former occupier

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 Independent Pharmacists’ Association of New Zealand will celebrate its official one-year anniversary after a “successful” first year as an independent society 

Marewa Pharmacy staff are feeling lucky today after narrowly avoiding serious flooding during torrential rain in Napier yesterday

When Mt Smart Pharmacy owner Karam Al-Khanaty turned up to work last Wednesday, little did he know he was about to add a parrot to his patient list

With less than a month to go before pharmacists and other health professionals must phase out fax machines, it is unclear how many have made the change

A handful of pharmacies in Napier are mopping up and making the best of a power outage after torrential rain last night

Young pharmacist Laura Pidcock reflects on the many and various characters who pass through pharmacy