Under the new pharmacy contract, the Integrated Community Pharmacy Services Agreement, $4.1 million has been allocated for local commissioning of services.That’s all those added extras that pharmacists are encouraged to take up.
On 1 October 2018, the new and much anticipated Integrated Community Pharmacy Services Agreement came into force. The new contract promised to inject more than $20 million in new funding into the sector and provide flexibility to develop local services. Seven months on, reporter Jonathan Chilton-Towle looks at what the contract has delivered
Authorities in the Australian state of Victoria now have instant access to prescription data for high-risk medicines, and on this side of the Tasman, the Medicines Classification Committee is considering introducing a similar system
The direction of the draft community pharmacy services strategy the Northland DHB is currently considering has won some support, but two pharmacists say it includes a few worrying details
Understanding how consumers view money and how their spending habits could change may reap rewards on the shop floor, writes ASB head of healthcare David Rhind
A small team of pharmacists working for Otago and Southland’s only PHO is hoping to recruit the help of southern community pharmacists to deliver clinical services as demand grows
Unichem Maxx, Green Cross Health’s supersize test pharmacy at 500 Ti Rakau Drive in Auckland closed recently, about a year after a Chemist Warehouse store opened next door.
Academic pharmacist Nataly Martini provides key information on Helicobacter pylori pathophysiology, diagnosis and evidence-based treatment strategies to enhance patient outcomes