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Name suppression has lapsed for a Waikato pharmacist found guilty of misconduct by the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal in March

Pharmacists wanting to be prescribers no longer have to complete a postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy first, the Pharmacy Council has decided

Pharmac has pulled the plug on eight inactive applications for public funding of medicines as part of its new policy of increased transparency on decision making

It is a "serious deficiency” that pharmacists are deprived of the type of funding provided to other health practitioners, say Australian researchers

Small-town pharmacist Doug Chapman is heading back to the big smoke after seven years in the close-knit community of Wakefield

David Taylor says a year has made all the difference to GPs becoming comfortable working with his company’s repeat prescription ordering Zoom app 

The NZMA chair says not only are rapid throat tests performed in Green Cross Health pharmacies inaccurate, pharmacists should not be performing any throat swab tests

University of Otago pharmacy students have a new place to practise on mock patients before they move on to the real thing

The Ministry of Health and Pharmac have made 55,000 new doses of influenza vaccine available this week to help relieve a nationwide shortage. 

Rebound nasal congestion from excessive use of decongestant nasal sprays has led to much concern, and online support networks, overseas. Pharmacy Today reporter Fiona Cassie contacts pharmacists and researchers and discovers the picture of so-called addiction is quite different here