Community Pharmacy

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

New pharmacies can once again open in Northland, following the DHB’s implementation of its new community pharmacy strategy last month

The MidCentral DHB has created a new strategy envisioning an integrated service model for the region’s 32 community pharmacies, but local pharmacists say more funding is needed to put the strategy in place

Pharmacies are struggling more than ever to collect the $5 copayment, with stiff competition from chains offering free prescriptions

Studying integrative medicine at a Christchurch community pharmacy has been eye-opening for Hawaiian pharmacy owner Kevin Glick

Christchurch-based pharmacy intern Laura Pidcock has a long, hard look at what it means to be a pharmacist

"Another day older and deeper in debt” is a song lyric about Kentucky coal mining that could be applied to New Zealand’s DHBs

Taranaki’s Marie Allan qualified during World War II, became a publican then returned to dispensing pills in the 1970s as a widowed mother of eight

A Nelson pharmacy now employs a “lifestyle pharmacist” to talk to people about changes they need to make to diet, exercise and sleep habits