COVID-19

Central Region Technical Advisory Services, which works with all 20 DHBs, has rubbished claims made by pharmacists to Pharmacy Today who say monthly dispensing creates more work in the dispensary, but doesn’t generate any more income. 

Medsafe has announced site audits under the Pharmacy Quality Audit Programme Framework will restart on Monday, 13 July 

Details about who will benefit from the $18 million fund for pharmacy announced last month are slow to emerge, leaving some wondering if it caught health authorities by surprise

Retail sales in New Zealand pharmacies are starting to bounce back after 12 consecutive weeks of “significantly lower” sales due to COVID-19, according to the latest figures from RPM Retail

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

The worst is yet to come in Queenstown, predict some pharmacy owners who are hoping to ride out the next two or three years. But there’s a good chance not all pharmacies will survive

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. 

The Government has extended the waiver allowing pharmacies to dispense non-NZePS (New Zealand Electronic Prescription Service) prescriptions without a physical prescriber signature for another three months

The tourism industry has been dealt a savage blow by border closures. Ruth Brown checks the pulse of pharmacies in some of our most popular destinations 

A report by the auditor-general has found a lack of personal protective equipment planning and stocktaking, and mixed messages by health organisations created confusion and shortages during the height of COVID lockdown