Pharmaceutical Society

The Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand has amended its rules to appoint the president of the Māori Pharmacists Association - Ngā Kaitiaki o te Puna Rongoā to its National Executive

At its Annual General Meeting on Thursday 24 September 2020, the Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand amended its rules to allow the appointment of the president of Ngā Kaitiaki o Te Puna Rongoā (the Māori Pharmacists’ Association) to its National Executive, in addition to the seven elected members

Today is World Pharmacists Day and the International Society of Pharmacovigilance, the Ministry of Health and Pharmac are giving pharmacists kudos for the important role they play in protecting patients from medicines harm and serving their communities

According to the Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand greater utilisation of the pharmacy workforce would improve primary healthcare in New Zealand.

How can pharmacists make the most difference to the healthcare of New Zealanders? Pharmaceutical Society communications adviser Jo Leahy talks to pharmacists and GPs 

The Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand held its annual spring stakeholder function last night in Wellington

The death by overdose of a Dunedin student has sparked calls to bring paracetamol into line with UK standards and restrict it to pharmacy-only sales. 

The Pharmacy Council will not delay the implementation of its proposed changes to pharmacist recertification, despite the Pharmaceutical Society asking it to do so

The questionnaires have been distributed and the numbers crunched. Now results are in on how pharmacists on the shop floor are feeling – and it’s not good. Ruth Brown and Anna Lee report

A Pharmaceutical Society survey of early-career pharmacists makes for grim reading, as nearly a third of them plan to leave within five years