October 2024

Allocating more funding for the health sector would surely ameliorate many of the challenges currently being faced, writes editor Jonathan Chilton-Towle

Pharmacy owners and the Pharmacy Guild are extremely disappointed with the outcome of this year’s annual contract talks, reports Jonathan Chilton-Towle

Two recent pharmacy workforce surveys have highlighted the unsustainable pressures pharmacy workers are facing, as Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

THE INDEPENDENT Pharmacists’ Association of New Zealand is offering its members free workplace support sessions to help them deal with mental health issues.

Just a few months into her new role as president of the Pharmacy Guild, Keshree Naidoo-Rauf is focused on unity and advocacy in these challenging times.

Script Sense is a new pharmacy management platform being designed in Canterbury. Jody Hopkinson reports

PROXIMITY is more important than price for punters choosing which pharmacy to use, a University of Otago study has found. 

A patient died from pulmonary disease after using nitrofurantoin for 28 months. During that time no health professionals warned the man about the risks, Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

THE HEALTH AND DISABILITY Commissioner has criticised a pharmacist for mistakenly dispensing an oral steroid with an incorrect label, causing a four-week-old baby to be given five times the prescribed dose.

Last year’s winter minor ailments service pilot has been found to have increased public access to health services, Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports