February 2018

The Pharmacy Self Care Pro­gramme has been celebrated for its quarter of a century supplying pharmacies with health ­information.

People suffering from head and neck cancer, who can’t use chemotherapy, will soon have subsidised access to a new drug.

Routine treatment for people with emphysema in New Zealand isn’t meeting international standards, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Otago. 

New guidelines on pharmacists’ annual incomes suggest wide variation, with dispensing pharmacists starting at $65,000 and pharmacist prescribers topping the range at $170,000.

The first Pacific Pharmacists’ Group is receiving backing from Pharmac to establish itself as a formal entity.