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From glass bottles to plastic and medicine margins to Pharmac, pharmacy distributor Terry Cressy, who just turned 75, talks to Jody Hopkinson on the eve of his retirement

Director-general of health Diana Sarfati has announced she will quit her job, only half way through her five-year term

In support of his view that talk of health system underfunding is fake news, the health minister has cited a Ministry of Health response to an NZMJ editorial 

The team responsible for overseeing the electronic prescribing system might be about to lose their jobs, Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

Foreign interns and the pharmacy owners who employed them are shocked internship fees are increasing by 33 per cent. Jody Hopkinson reports

Claims of under-funding and under-staffing in New Zealand healthcare are ‘fake news’, says health minister Simeon Brown

ACT Party leader David Seymour’s attempt to drive a Land Rover up the steps of Parliament yesterday overshadowed the bigger story of Julian Paton’s fundraising efforts for heart research. Blenheim journalist Chris Valli talked to Professor Paton when he stopped over in Blenheim on route from Dunedin to Auckland 

A pharmacy and medical centre in Clevedon, south of Auckland, experienced 36 hours of frustration last week after their internet and landlines were cut off for nearly two days

A locum pharmacist has created a pharmacy-specific jobs app to help streamline the recruitment process and reduce associated costs.