In this article, Sue Frankland looks at the global problem of wastage of medications, including causes such as overprescribing and non-adherence. She also presents information from her master’s dissertation on how people understand, and respond to, medication expiration dates
Dispensing change: Female pharmacists still climbing the ladder
Friday 12 October 2018, 12:35 PM
Elsa Norvill
With the recent 125th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New Zealand, Miranda Cook looks at the place of women in pharmacy and talks to women who have broken down barriers in what once was a male preserve. Some interviewees feel females are making good ground in the health policy arena, while others think more needs to be done to propel them into ownership and leadership roles
Elsa Norvill, “I’ll be with you in a minute.”
These are Elsa Norvill’s first words to me as she puts down her mobile to rush off and serve customers. I watch, on