September 2019

The midpoint of the tax year is a good time to reflect on progress so far, writes Moore Stephens Markhams Christchurch director Belinda Canton

Mole and spot-checking app Firstcheck is now being offered through more than 50 pharmacies throughout New Zealand

The controversially named health food chain TravelPharm has closed its three Auckland airport stores.

Claire Stott is a clinical pharmacist working at Tauranga Hospital. She’s also a newly elected member of the executive committee for Ngā Kaitiaki o te Puna Rongoā o Aotearoa – the Māori Pharmacists’ Association

Pharmac will take another look at three-in-one preventive heart drug Trinomia, which it declined to fund last year

Pharmacies using social media to keep people informed and drive sales is nothing new, but one Waikato pharmacy has begun hosting live question-and-answer sessions on Facebook

The Health and Disability Commissioner has found a complementary health practitioner put a patient at risk when he advised him to cease taking his prescribed antidepressants

Pharmacist prescriber Helen Cant was named the inaugural winner of the shark tank competition – as well as pharmacist of the year – at the PSNZ conference on 10 August

The former president of the Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand was honoured for his outstanding service to the profession at last month’s PSNZ conference

Hawke’s Bay DHB is helping its general practice pharmacists to become prescribers, after 10 years of funding their primary care roles