August 2023

Kunal Arora arrived in New Zealand at 18. Four years later, he runs and co-owns a pharmacy in New Plymouth. He talks to Paulette Crowley about early mornings, discipline and learning on the job

By necessity, pharmacists are perfectionists who must constantly be vigilant for errors, but this can have a flow-on effect in their personal lives, writes Christchurch clinical pharmacist Katrina Azer

University of Auckland pharmacy student Mitchell Wong is profiling his fellow pharmacy students, the pharmacists of tomorrow. This month, we meet fourth-year student Jonathan Lo

On 1 July, the $5 prescription fee was removed for all New Zealanders. Natasha Jojoa Burling checks in with pharmacists to see what happened after this historic event

PHARMACISTS SAY the new winter minor-ailments initiative is providing a great service to the public and are calling for it to be expanded nationwide.

Natasha Jojoa Burling gauges pharmacy sector reaction to the Government’s new health workforce plan

The deputy health and disability commissioner has asked a pharmacist to apologise to a deceased patient’s family and told a pharmacy to amend its procedures after the pharmacist failed to pick up an intern’s dispensing error.

Bargain Chemist has launched a new telehealth service for minor ailments in collaboration with the Independent Pharmacists Association of New Zealand. 

THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY has appointed Helen Morgan-Banda as its new chief executive.

The Needle Exchange Services Trust has lost funding from Te Whatu Ora and will be eventually wound up.