May 2020

Tina Hillier, programme coordinator at the ENGAGE Pharmacy Group, talks through some of her favourite products that work well and are easy on customers’ pockets. This month, I would like to share a few of my favourite products from over the years. These are products I still use every day and have done for a long time, mainly because I haven’t found anything better. With the economic climate following the COVID-19 lockdown, I have attempted to share products that are friendly on the pocket for your customers.

During the week, Green Cross Health regional manager Bronwen Shepherd is a well-known face in the Wellington pharmacy sector. But in the weekend, she can usually be found working as a ranger at the Zealandia wildlife reserve or in Thorndon, battling to save a local native snail from extinction. Jonathan Chilton-Towle talks to Bronwen about her passion for conservation

New York rockers The Strokes were somewhat prescient with the title of their latest album, The New Abnormal, its launch coinciding with their home turf becoming one of the hardest hit by COVID-19

Moving to COVID-19 Alert Level 3 will offer no respite to the pharmacy sector’s devastating retail sales slump, according to RPM Retail chief executive, John Saywell

The stock shortages during the COVID-19 crisis are the worst Sara Dougherty, the dispensary manager at Auckland’s Unichem Milford, has seen in her entire pharmacy career

A Pharmacy Today survey has revealed 60 per cent of respondents are worried about the future of their business as the COVID-19 pandemic drags on. Jonathan Chilton-Towle presents the findings

Pharmacy sector leadership groups are standing firm against accusations they haven’t done enough to support pharmacists during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis

The first two pharmacy services contract review meetings for 2020 were called off due to the COVID-19 outbreak but the DHBs say this will not affect any contract amendments coming into force on 1 October as usual

Many pharmacies have taken a pounding as a result of a huge drop in customers during lockdown. But reporter Jonathan Chilton-Towle unearths discrepancy of opinion over how seriously finances are affected 

Since the advent of the COVID-19 crisis, the New Zealand pharmacy sector has seen unprecedented and rapid changes. In the space of just a few weeks since the lockdown started, vaccination accreditation has been opened up, pharmacists have been permitted to vaccinate far more widely, and the legal requirements around prescriptions have been relaxed to name just a few. With so much change afoot, Pharmacy Today is asking what other updates pharmacists want to see