March 2024

Kia ora.

Pharmacy owners are calling for their remuneration system to be made simpler after another payment error was uncovered. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

Pharmacy owners say the sector needs a greater funding increase than previous years to stay sustainable, but they are not hopeful that the 2024 National Annual Agreement Review will achieve this.

The ACT Party’s election promise to return pseudoephedrine to pharmacy shelves is one step closer to fruition after the law change passed its first reading in Parliament on 20 February.

Former Auckland pharmacist and All Black Don McKay is remembered for his love of family, pharmacy and rugby, and his willingness to help others. Natasha Jojoa Burling reports

Wellington Hospital’s pharmacy clinical team leader Kathryn Lawrie has been made a Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand. She spoke to Paulette Crowley about her passion for hospital pharmacy and working proactively with patients

PHARMAC HAS DELAYED making a decision on its proposal to remove the restriction on pharmacist vaccinators giving childhood vaccines. 

After stealing products from his employer and on-selling them, a former pharmacist is facing charges of professional misconduct and had his fitness to practise questioned. Natasha Jojoa Burling reports

Pounamu Keepa wants to increase the face of Māori in pharmacy to improve health literacy and outcomes, as Paulette Crowley reports

CARLO MARRA, dean of the University of Otago’s School of Pharmacy, is leaving his position.