May 2021

Working in rural ­pharmacy has been great for my pharmacy practice. I have been working in rural pharmacy for the past six years, and enjoyed the freedom and potential for positive intervention it has given me so far

Pharmacist Mena Alsaffar owns Turuki Pharmacy Panmure and Papakura Marae Pharmacy in Auckland alongside her husband, Jaffer Al-Jumaily. She arrived in New Zealand at age four, after emigrating from Iraq with her ­parents Ahmed and Eman, who are also pharmacists

Pharmaceutical Society president Professor Rhiannon Braund writes, “Pharmacy needs to keep its head above water until the ‘system’ comes to the realisation that we are the answer to many of the current health system needs”

Anna Lee talks to new Pharmacy Council chair Arthur Bauld about his remarkable journey

Trailblazing pharmacist Ian McMichael has hung up his white coat but he is not done yet with the profession he loves. Jonathan Chilton-Towle, speaks to Mr McMichael and others about what he has achieved and what he plans to do now  

The Hutt Valley DHB is standing by its decision to enter into a funding agreement for a new Countdown Pharmacy in Wainuiomata, despite the panel assessing new pharmacy contracts voting against the proposal

Don’t wait for someone else to address inequities in health, start doing what you can in your own backyard, says clinical researcher and Auckland GP Matire Harwood

GPs should especially be on the ­lookout for medication-related harm in elderly patients, according to the lead author of a new study that crunched general practice data

Dunedin pharmacist Yasmin Abdul Aziz has crunched the numbers after visiting 51 pharmacies across the country. She talks to Jonathan Chilton-Towle, about her results 

Pharmacist and Pharmacy Council manager of compliance Pam Duncan has been remembered for her influence over the pharmacy profession and for touching the lives of many of its members