July 2024

Kia ora. By the time this magazine reaches you, the $5 prescription fee will likely be back.

Prescription fees are back this month. Jonathan Chilton-Towle investigates what the authorities are doing to support pharmacies to administer the new targeted system

HAMILTON PHARMACY OWNER Keshree Naidoo-Rauf has been elected president of the Pharmacy Guild and Upper Hutt pharmacy owner Brooke McKay has been elected vice president.

A growing number of pharmacies are starting to offer a private minor-ailments service using the ReCare digital tool. Jonathan Chilton-Towle investigates

Pharmacist Andrew Duncan is remembered for his advocacy work in the sector and his love for family and exploring new places. Zach Thompson reports

AS PSEUDOEPHEDRINE-RELATED crime is expected to rise with the return of products to pharmacy shelves, a New Zealand pharmaceutical company has created a pseudoephedrine product that is more difficult to use to manufacture methamphetamine.

Pseudoephedrine became available for over-the-counter sale for the first time in 13 years on 20 May, after the ACT Party delivered on its election promise to undo the 2011 reclassification of the product as a prescription-only medicine. Jonathan Chilton-Towle looks at what pharmacies have experienced since then

The rapid-response home-visiting team of Auckland outreach vaccination service, Uri Ririki Child Health Connection Centre, was disestablished at the end of last month.

THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH will axe 123 jobs as part of its latest round of cost-cutting.

A pharmacy has been pinged after an insulin pen dispensing error resulted in serious side effects, reports Jonathan Chilton-Towle