Pharmaceutical Society

Open outside of normal business hours and on weekends, with no appointments necessary, pharmacies are well placed to boost public uptake of the measles vaccine, many believe. 

Today is World Pharmacists Day – an important day to celebrate the huge contribution pharmacists make to healthcare around the world. To celebrate, we asked pharmacists Estelle Lang from Whangarei, Katrina Azer from Christchurch and Cindy Wang from Danniverke, to share what they love about the profession, common misconceptions about pharmacists and the how they see the role of pharmacists changing in the future.

From next year, all new pharmacists will be trained as vaccinators to curb increasing rates of infectious disease in New Zealand

Nyamuragira and nitrofurantoin – one is an antibiotic used to treat urinary tract infections and one is a volcano that recently erupted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

A Pharmaceutical Society appeal for the Ministry of Health to permit pharmacists to give measles, mumps and rubella vaccinations has the support of the director of the Immunisation Advisory Centre

A gala dinner was held on Saturday night for the Pharmaceutical Society New Zealand's annual conference where seven awards and fellowships were bestowed 

In response to feedback, the Pharmaceutical Society is this year branching out from its usual one-day professional development event, to two days, to cover topical issues affecting pharmacy

Helen Cant, one of Tokoroa's two pharmacist prescribers, is the Pharmaceutical Society's new Pharmacist of the Year

This year's 2 per cent membership fee increase delivers good value for money, argues Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand president Ian McMichael – though not all are convinced

A case involving dozens of pharmacists in the upper North Island dispensing an illegal prescription for popular painkiller tramadol and the antibiotic, metronidazole, has prominent pharmacists calling for more rapid uptake of electronic prescribing