April 2025

A Hawke’s Bay gout initiative has lost two key members, reports Jody Hopkinson

Jonathan Chilton-Towle speaks to David Woods about getting a PSNZ gold medal

CLINICAL PHARMACIST and Pharmacy Today columnist Katrina Azer has been named one of the world’s top 50 most influential pharmacists.

A team of Auckland pharmacy students got their running shoes on last month for Auckland’s annual Round the Bays event. Auckland Pharmacy Students’ Association (APSA) sports representative Wynstan Metuataopu says 25 students took part in the 8.4km run on 2 March this year.

Contractors, more commonly referred to as locums in pharmacy and other health professional industries, are essential to fll labour gaps. Moore Markhams Auckland director Jonathan Roberts looks at how they are paid and taxed

MEDSAFE HAS APPROVED the first electronic controlled-drugs register, Toniq Guard, for use in New Zealand pharmacies.

Jody Hopkinson speaks to Remya Raju, who was an assistant professor at a pharmacy college in Kerala, India and worked with her mother at the family pharmacy before immigrating to New Zealand. She now works at Mountainview Pharmacy in Taranaki

ReCare Clinical Pharmacy Group operations manager Linda Joe looks at ways pharmacists can help to improve patient safety

Medsafe group manager Chris James discusses the new pharmacy audit regime

Clinical pharmacist Katrina Azer shares the first chapter of her personal journey in pharmacy, that saw her going from feeling trapped and hopeless to finding a new sense of purpose