Workforce

Pharmacists who applied for the 2024 intake of the voluntary bonding scheme, intended to entice more staff to rural areas, are still waiting to hear if their applications have been approved over six months after applications have closed

Community pharmacies around New Zealand are being asked to fill the gaps in after-hours services caused by general practice’s workforce crisis. Jody Hopkinson and Jonathan Chilton-Towle report

Community pharmacies around New Zealand are being asked to fill the gaps in after-hours services caused by general practice’s workforce crisis. Jody Hopkinson and Jonathan Chilton-Towle report

Clinical pharmacist Katrina Azer looks at potential ways the current pharmacy workforce crisis might be fixed

The Coalition Government has missed its target to publish an updated Health Workforce Plan by 30 September, pushing the self-imposed deadline out to the end of December

At the health ministry, a net 123 jobs have been cut in the government-ordered public service money-saving drive  

The challenges facing primary care nurses are “unprecedented”, and not being paid at the same level as Te Whatu Ora nurses is a “fundamental injustice”, says one of their leaders

Some pharmacies are being asked to increase their opening hours in areas where medical centres have reduced their hours or closed

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.

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