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Upper Hutt pharmacist Brooke McKay hopes to foster unity in the profession in her new role as vice president of PSNZ

From next year, Te Whatu Ora will pay graduate pharmacists who choose to work in rural areas nearly $12,000 for their first three years of work, to entice them to stay in these hard-to-staff areas

A pharmacist who engaged in a harassment campaign against his former employers and provided false information to a professional conduct committee set up to investigate him has had his registration canceled and been ordered to pay over $14,000

Medsafe is investigating a new digital healthcare provider that has been advertising a controlled drug on social media, and the Medical Council has warned the provider for using its logo without permission

Removing the $5 prescription fee has made healthcare in New Zealand demonstrably better and pharmacists think National’s plan to restore the fees for most people will have “disastrous” consequences, a survey conducted by the Prescription Access Initiative shows

A leading epidemiologist says it appears the country is experiencing a fifth wave of Covid-19

Pharmacists are not happy that the Pharmacy Council wants to increase pharmacists’ Annual Practising Certificate fee and disciplinary levy by $75 next year

All child and adult immunisation data is to be shifted to the new $38 million Aotearoa Immunisation Register this month as the gremlin-beset National Immunisation Register is put out to pasture

Vulnerable babies will be put at risk by an “extremely disappointing” decision to not fund a drug preventing hospitalisation with RSV, says a paediatrician.

An Auckland pharmacy has become the first in the country to be involved in a pilot campaign to ensure people with mental health and addiction challenges get the medical help they need, without discrimination