August 2020

Sadness about the situation facing young pharmacists was my main feeling as I read the “Early Career Pharmacists Building Blocks” report. This is the career these young people – most of them under 30 – have spent five years studying for, and no doubt have the towering student loans to show for it

The questionnaires have been distributed and the numbers crunched. Now results are in on how pharmacists on the shop floor are feeling – and it’s not good. Ruth Brown and Anna Lee report

Pharmacy owners are aware of high levels of stress and dissatisfaction among early career pharmacists – some share that stress and some are calling for widespread change. But others are less sympathetic

The country’s 20 DHBs are urging community pharmacies in serious financial difficulty due to the impact of COVID-19 to see if they are eligible for a portion of an $18 million funding package

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt global medicines supply, meaning New Zealand pharmacies were running out of some products last month

Kaikoura Pharmacy owner David McKee is “losing the will to cooperate” after a Medsafe pharmacy auditor allegedly ordered the disposal of about 85,000 labels following a routine audit.  

An Auckland pharmacy is struggling to survive after most of its patients unexpectedly vanished four months ago, and didn’t come back

As the 2020 general election looms, Pharmacy Today posed the sector’s burning questions to a handful of top contenders vying for your vote 

Gastrointestinal bleeding and kidney failure are much more commonly experienced by Māori and Pacific patients while taking non-­steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs than Pākehā, new research says

Unichem Tuakau has helped lead the charge on lifting vaccination rates, with the south Waikato pharmacy administering 900 flu vaccines so far – nearly five times last year’s total