Community Pharmacy

Every morning for 25 years, New Plymouth pharmacist Ian Lobb would proudly set up his storefront sign on the city’s main street to mark the start of a busy day ahead

Chemist Warehouse is rapidly expanding with five pharmacies open in the Auckland region alone, and plans to roll out around 70 throughout all New Zealand

Racks loaded with sun hats, jandals and other retail products on sale outside a small home in rural Northland is an unusual set-up that undoubtedly causes visitors to take a second glance

Retail customers declined by 2 per cent last year, and this has occurred steadily for more than a decade, even though prescription numbers continue to rise

The Ministry of Health’s long-awaited revised draft of the Therapeutic Products Bill has gone live, thrusting pharmacy ownership rules back on the political agenda

The pharmacy community is mourning the loss of Diego Boniolo, a pharmacist well known for starting up his own retail pharmacy group and the ability to tell a cracking story

For nearly 10 years, Shannon Saunders has been doing her dream job – working as the sole qualified community pharmacist on the Pacific island paradise of Rarotonga

Ten pharmacies across New Zealand have signed up to a virtual general practice service, that is meeting a range of health needs, from emergency prescriptions to contraception and sexual health

The Summer Holidays are finally here. To give you some inspiration for what to do with all the well-earned free time you (hopefully) have, we look back at some of the amazing hobby activities other pharmacists get up to

A former medicines control auditor believes the organisation made the wrong decision when it approved auditors to conduct unannounced audits of pharmacies at any time of day