Community Pharmacy

Kaikoura Pharmacy owner David McKee is “losing the will to cooperate” after a Medsafe pharmacy auditor ordered the disposal of tens of thousands of labels following a routine audit 

Katrina Azer, pharmacy manager at the award-winning Longhurst Pharmacy, hopes for post-traumatic growth
from the COVID-19 rather than post-traumatic stress 

Pharmacist and PhD candidate at the University of Auckland School of Pharmacy, Robert Haua (Ngāi Te Rangi), has been awarded the first School of Pharmacy Doctoral Publication Excellence Award for his paper “Pharmacist integration into general practice in New Zealand”

Enthusiasm for the Safety in Practice programme is growing, helped along by winning the ACC Patient Safety Award at the New Zealand Primary Healthcare Awards | He Tohu Mauri Ora (NZPHA) in February. 

In his latest instalment of business advice for pharmacies, Oak Park Chartered Accountants director Hugh Lopdell provides an overview of confidence in the sector at Alert Level 1, where business is getting back to normal in many areas, but others are still lagging well behind last year’s levels

An Otago study estimates up to half of the daily activities of a pharmacy are carried out without remuneration. 

The Ministry of Health today revealed more details of the $18 million fund for hundreds of ‘critical’ community pharmacies at part of the $92.6 million package the Government announced this week

The Government has revealed $18 million in funding will go to 365 "critical" community pharmacies as part of a $92.6 million package, but details - such as what constitutes a "critical" community pharmacy and how the financial support will be allocated- remain unclear

Unichem Wyndham Street co-owner and business manager Zahra Tabar likens the “dramatic” last three months to a Hollywood movie

Community Pharmacy Anticoagulant Management Service provides a safe and effective service and should be standard for all warfarin patients in New Zealand, a Palmerston North haematologist says after reviewing the service