General Practice

Co-founder of Clinical Advisory Pharmacists Association John Dunlop takes issue with comments made by PSNZ president Rhiannon Braund in the October issue of Pharmacy Today on the upskilling of pharmacists working in general practice

The case of ADHD specialist GP Tony Hanne excited much comment last month, not least from pharmacy owner Ian McMichael who is concerned about the impact of bad prescribing on pharmacists and potential liability, writes Jonathan Chilton-Towle

The English pharmacy sector is begging the NHS to stop stealing community pharmacists to work in general practice after three years of a programme similar to one being proposed here.

In part two of a series on how pharmacists can play a role in reducing the “pill burden”, clinical pharmacist for Tend Health, Katrina Azer, outlines the process of deprescribing

Working in the best interests of patients does not justify actions that amount to malpractice or negligence, says professional conduct committee counsel Belinda Johns 

Specialist GP Tony Hanne has accepted three of five particulars of a wider charge of professional misconduct being made against him by the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal

Four key challenges to implementing localities, including general practice willingness, are outlined by health systems researcher Tim Tenbensel in a guest editorial in the latest Journal of Primary Health Care 

The pace of change can be extraordinarily slow when the pressure is on and the country’s health professionals wait for news on their workforce future.

A dispute over the upskilling of community pharmacists for new roles in general practice has broken out, just as Te Whatu Ora prepares to usher in more of them, reports Ruth Brown

The pace of change can be extraordinarily slow when the pressure is on and the country’s health professionals wait for news on their workforce future.