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The Northland DHB will not be entering into any new pharmacy contracts until it has brought in a community pharmacy strategy to take control of pharmacy services offered in the region

Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians at Northern DHB are the latest group of hospital pharmacy staff to threaten industrial action over delayed employment contract negotiations

Motivational messages for pharmacists to champion social and environmental change to end health inequities resounded at the New Zealand Hospital Pharmacists’ Association annual conference

Eleven pharmacists and pharmacy technicians at Nelson Hospital and Wairau Hospital in Blenheim have voted to take strike action this month

The DHB leader wanting to limit the number of pharmacies providing services to residents in Auckland's aged-care facilities says the proposal is about improving the quality and sustainability of the service not cutting costs

A DHB pharmacy leader is describing the introduction of the new pharmacy services contract today as a historic moment for the New Zealand pharmacy sector.

The revamped pharmacy services contract that promises more funding and more protection for pharmacists is looking like a done deal, but not everyone wants to sign it.  

A new professional advisory payment included in the pharmacy services contract is a move towards addressing equity issues for Māori and Pasifika patients, a DHB pharmacy leader says

Whenever a change is proposed to the new pharmacy services contract, pharmacy owners will be able to choose whether they want to accept or decline it and this offers flexibility never before had by contract holders, according the chief executive of the Pharmacy Guild

Pharmacists around the country seem to mostly be supportive of the revamped pharmacy services contract presented to them last week