NZ Primary Healthcare Awards

Working in a bunker, setting up a new lifestyle coaching service and planning a full store refit were just a few of the things achieved by Gemma Perry and her team at Sanders Pharmacy in Te Awamutu in 2020

Reliability through trying times and showing initiative are the hallmarks of New Zealand’s top pharmacy technician for 2021

Jilly Alexander’s pharmacy career may not have taken her far from her home in Northland, but it has taken her to great heights

The afterglow of the New Zealand Primary Healthcare Awards | He Tohu Mauri Ora is still providing some warmth as we celebrate our pharmacy stars who made it on to the stage on 15 May

 “It was so crazy!” says Pauline McQuoid of the whirlwind New Zealand Primary Healthcare Awards | He Tohu Mauri Ora 2021 at which she was awarded Community or primary healthcare pharmacist of the year

Jilly Alexander’s pharmacy career may not have taken her far from her home in Northland, but it has taken her to great heights

A 41-year career of pursuing excellence and generously sharing his knowledge and good humour has brought academic GP Bruce Arroll the ACC Supreme Award in the New Zealand Primary Healthcare awards | He Tohu Mauri Ora

Heeding the words of prime minister Jacinda Ardern, Sanders Pharmacy adopted a go hard and go early response to the COVID-19 pandemic before it reached our shores

In her first year at Life Pharmacy North City in Porirua, pharmacy technician Sonya Scrimshaw had no dispensary manager; in the subsequent three years she worked with five different managers

Severe medicine-related harm is estimated to affect around 45,000 New Zealanders each year and kills more than double the number of people claimed by road accidents and suicide combined. And yet, no one is talking about it, says clinical pharmacist Pauline McQuoid