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In this blast from the past we look back on the first-ever Otago White Coat ceremony held in February 2012

The Government’s use of urgency to pass a bill disestablishing Te Aka Whai before a scheduled Waitangi Tribunal urgent hearing is “unequivocally, an act of bad faith,” says University of Otago professor of public health Peter Crampton 

One-hundred-and-one future pharmacists donned their white coats for the first time this weekend at the University of Otago Pharmacy School

The Health and Disability Commissioner has criticised a pharmacy for a dispensing error that resulted in a child’s hospitalisation after being mistakenly given an antipsychotic medication instead of an antihistamine

Uncertainty over an upcoming urgent Waitangi Tribunal hearing into the disestablishment of Te Aka Whai Ora isn’t fazing the Wai 3307 claimants

Staff at a Christchurch pharmacy are in shock after an armed robbery

Practices may rethink whether they can afford to carry on with immunisation monitoring and recalls if parents opt to go to community pharmacies for infant vaccinations, says an RNZCGP submission

A Ministry of Health staffer who allegedly leaked information to the media “no longer works” there

There is concern pharmacist numbers are failing to keep up with the population, that they’re working longer hours and more are heading to Australia

Te Whatu Ora is getting set to conduct a nationwide survey of its staff starting in April, according to chief executive Margie Apa.