June 2021

Health minister Andrew Little says Budget 2021 did not include any new funding for pharmacy because no new initiatives for pharmacy were being implemented

Despite a one-month delay to the start of the influenza vaccination rollout due to international manufacturing issues, the Ministry of Health expects a record number of people to get the jab this season

Medicine supplies in India have been pushed to breaking point by the pandemic but this does not yet appear to have had a flow-on effect for New Zealand

Incoming head of the University of Auckland School of Pharmacy says he will work to boost student numbers, particularly among Māori and Pacific students

Auckland pharmacist and former owner of Devonport 7 Day Pharmacy Asma Shousha has been censured, her registration cancelled and she has been ordered to pay more than $37,000 in costs following what she told Pharmacy Today was a “very bad” period in her life

A new version of the Pharmacy Action Plan, which is set to guide the direction of pharmacy policy for the next five years is under way. But so far, very few community pharmacists are involved

Many business owners across the country felt as if COVID-19 pushed them close to the brink of closure. But for pharmacies in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland’s CBD, the pandemic has been just one of many challenges

Evidence given to the inquest into six sudden, unexpected deaths after a Pharmac anti-epilepsy drug funding switch doesn’t clearly link the two, the chief coroner has found

Heeding the words of prime minister Jacinda Ardern, Sanders Pharmacy adopted a go hard and go early response to the COVID-19 pandemic before it reached our shores

In her first year at Life Pharmacy North City in Porirua, pharmacy technician Sonya Scrimshaw had no dispensary manager; in the subsequent three years she worked with five different managers