MidCentral Community Pharmacy Group pharmacy project facilitator Fiona Bradley has won this year’s emerging director award from the Institute of Directors Wellington branch
The reins of managing the community pharmacy based at Palmerston North Hospital have been taken up by the MidCentral DHB after it decided not to renew the lease for the former occupier
New pharmacies will once again be permitted in the MidCentral DHB area when the DHB implements its pharmacy contracting policy at the end of this month
Levin pharmacy owners Neville Gimblett and Phil Berry recruited volunteers from the local community to deliver medication to anyone - regardless of age or socio-economic status - for free, and often without payment for the medication
The MidCentral DHB has created a new strategy envisioning an integrated service model for the region’s 32 community pharmacies, but local pharmacists say more funding is needed to put the strategy in place