Workforce

A locum pharmacist has created a pharmacy-specific jobs app to help streamline the recruitment process and reduce associated costs.

The 2024 intake for the rural voluntary bonding scheme has missed out on starting the programme in 2024 and they still do not know if their applications will be approved

Pharmacists received an unwelcome Christmas present this holiday season, when they found out PSNZ will this year reduce payments to intern preceptors and increase intern fees, especially for overseas interns.  

Just a few months into her new role as president of the Pharmacy Guild, Keshree Naidoo-Rauf is focused on unity and advocacy in these challenging times.

The pharmacy workforce crisis is becoming especially dire for rural pharmacies Paulette Crowley investigates

Two recent pharmacy workforce surveys have highlighted the unsustainable pressures pharmacy workers are facing, as Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

Te Whatu Ora wants pharmacists to offer more medicines reviews and OTC care and also to strengthen the primary care workforce, including pharmacy, to enable patients to stay well in their communities for longer

The workforce crisis has intensified competition for pharmacists, with reports of some being poached with big money offers. Jody Hopkinson reports

UPDATED: Te Whatu Ora staff were today given more details on the agency’s latest job-cut proposal, which, according to the Public Service Association, could see almost 1500 jobs axed

After two years with not one applicant for the full-time pharmacist role at Ohakune Pharmacy, the owner is temporarily changing the service model; the pharmacy will become a depot