Medsafe

Medsafe appears to have got its skates on when it comes to progressing pharmacy licence applications

Pharmacy Today reporter Angela Woods chats to Chris James, the man at the helm of Medsafe, which instigated the sometimes unpopular surprise audits

Audit performance is continuing to improve, Medsafe’s latest figures show, but full compliance remains below 50 per cent

Medsafe has issued a warning about weight-loss products found to contain two prescription medicines withdrawn over safety concerns

Medsafe has opened a public consultation on plans to introduce new labelling requirements for non-active substances in medicines (exipients) which may cause a bad reaction, eg: allergies.

Since it was first piloted in Auckland in 2017, Medsafe’s new unannounced pharmacy auditing programme has been a bone of contention for pharmacists

Official information on non-steroidal anti-inflammatories is changing, to make people more aware of the drugs’ cardiovascular risk 

More than 1000 units of Weleda baby teething and colic powder have been taken off the shelves after the discovery of a contamination hazard earlier this month

Kaikoura Pharmacy owner David McKee has spent many years feeling frustrated and annoyed over what he sees as potentially unsafe sales of the motion sickness medicine Sea-Legs (meclozine)