General Practice

The owner of the only pharmacy in the far north community of Kaeo hopes a new primary care provider taking over her area’s troubled GP clinic will improve her business fortunes

Pharmacy trailblazer John Dunlop has retired, having finished his term on the Pharmaceutical Society board and written his last column for Pharmacy Today. 

The New Zealand Primary Healthcare Awards | He Tohu Mauri Ora is an opportunity not only to celebrate the successes of health professionals but to also learn from them, says Andrew Gaudin, chief executive of the Pharmacy Guild, which is co-hosting the event

Hawke’s Bay DHB is helping its general practice pharmacists to become prescribers, after 10 years of funding their primary care roles

Former president of the Pharmacy Guild Graeme Blanchard outlines solutions to the problem of inaccuracies in scripts crossing pharmacy counters

The health system faces another round of change, and its lead reviewer Heather Simpson is determined this will give priority to areas of most benefit to those who are least advantaged 

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

The inaugural NZ Primary Healthcare Awards, including awards for pharmacy and general practice, will be held on 29 February next year 

The number of registered pharmacist prescribers in New Zealand sits at a meagre 19, but health minister David Clark says he wants more

The Napier pharmacy trialling the instore virtual-doctor service, Doctor2Go, has found patients are very interested in the concept but not so much in using it.