Community Pharmacy

In the UK, pharmacists in primary care are solving multiple problems in a stretched national health service

Bernadette Brown is a Scottish pharmacist who has applied her independent prescribing skills and business acumen to transforming her community pharmacy into an award-winning community health hub.

Prescription fees are preventing patients from collecting medicines and the prescription subsidy scheme is confusing and cumbersome, the interim Health and Disability System Review has found

Former president of the Pharmacy Guild Graeme Blanchard outlines solutions to the problem of inaccuracies in scripts crossing pharmacy counters

Every day, GP clinics fax pharmacies thousands of prescriptions

Medsafe appears to have got its skates on when it comes to progressing pharmacy licence applications

The health system faces another round of change, and its lead reviewer Heather Simpson is determined this will give priority to areas of most benefit to those who are least advantaged 

A trial of free prescriptions at Nelson’s Hardy Street Pharmacy has been so successful, the owner is opening a second pharmacy, also offering free scripts

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) is lobbying for GPs to be given the right to own pharmacies, saying they could “dispense for general practice” and improve health outcomes for patients

In a new era of DHBs expecting pharmacists to offer more clinical services, and a not-so-new era of rural pharmacies struggling to find workers