November 2017

Mental Health Awareness Week this year was all about getting outside and smelling the roses, or grass or sea air – just getting close to whatever nature you have available to you.

Final-year Otago pharmacy student Sonja Bimler is looking forward to soon putting her passion for primary prevention strategies to work when she begins her internship.

New professional practice fellow Emma Smith is keen to spread her enthusiasm, passion and knowledge for pharmacy as widely as she can.

PhD student Yasmin Abdul Aziz is evaluating the unpaid services pharmacies provide, how much they cost and their impact on patients’ health.

Auckland DHB’s pharmacy team marked the recent World Pharmacists Day with a stand on level five of the atrium building at Auckland City Hospital.

It’s a long way from Tokomaru Bay, where I hail from, to Wellington where I currently work.

It’s a long way from Tokomaru Bay, where I hail from, to Wellington where I currently work.

Fifteen-year-old Alex Reilly was working as an after-school delivery boy for Unichem Crisps Pharmacy in Christchurch when he was struck by Guillain–Barré Syndrome overnight in January.

A renewed set of health priorities has emerged following the creation of the Labour, New Zealand First coalition government, and the response from the pharmacy sector is mixed.