Patient Safety

A Kaikōura pharmacy owner has been fighting for a patient on opioid substitution to get his licence returned after he tested positive for THC. Jody Hopkinson reports

A Kaikōura pharmacy owner has been fighting for a patient on opioid substitution to get his licence returned after he tested positive for THC. Jody Hopkinson reports

THE INDIGESTION medication Zantac is back on pharmacy shelves after being recalled in 2019.

ReCare Clinical Pharmacy Group operations manager Linda Joe looks at ways pharmacists can help to improve patient safety

The indigestion medication Zantac is back on pharmacy shelves after being recalled in 2019

NEW ZEALAND IS reviewing its rules on paracetamol in the wake of an Australian decision to restrict the number of pills in a pack.

Medsafe group manager Chris James looks at restriction notices and how pharmacists can help keep the public safe

New Zealand is reviewing its rules on paracetamol in the wake of an Australian decision to restrict the number of pills in a pack.  

Australia has new paracetamol restrictions which see significant changes to how many paracetamol tablets or capsules are sold, and from where, at any one time

An online pharmacy has pulled the STI self-testing product EttieKits from its website after concerns were raised by the New Zealand Herpes Foundation that the tests are not fit for purpose