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Long-awaited pay offers will be considered by hospital pharmacy negotiating teams in Canterbury and Northland over the next two weeks

A pharmacist prescriber and geritrician are offering an outpatients’ clinic at Tauranga Hospital to help elderly patients review and reduce their multiple medications

Northland pharmacists have until 30 April to have their say on the DHB document that will govern how pharmacy services are contracted and paid for in their region over the next seven years

Canterbury DHB has had to backtrack on an article published in its weekly newsletter which listed a specific pharmacy chain as a place where patients can get free nicotine replacement therapy

The University of Otago’s School of Pharmacy and the Southern DHB have launched a joint clinic aimed at improving medicines adherence

Canterbury DHB pharmacy staff have called off their planned strike, saying the Christchurch terror attacks have led to a change in priorities

A “shot across the bows” of the DHBs from the Ministry of Health could mean short-term cutbacks in primary care, healthcare researchers say

Health sector regulatory bodies are facing uncertainty and operational problems caused by long delays in ministerial appointments of board members

Police are investigating after fake prescriptions for the nerve pain medication gabapentin were presented at Southland pharmacies

Social media claims that children have been immunised against meningococcal W without consent have been dismissed by Northland DHB as incorrect and harmful