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As pharmacies expand the services they offer, they’re being advised to put time into training their technicians from the ground up so they can work at the top of their scope and free pharmacists to focus on clinical tasks

The Therapeutic Products Bill has passed its third reading in Parliament

A south Auckland screening programme to detect children with streptococcus A infection, in May recorded its highest number of positive cases in years

The Government is being challenged to ban direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription medicines – a practice that has been a concern for a long time, says Pharmaceutical Society president Rhiannon Braund

Countdown will appeal the High Court decision in which its pharmacy ownership structure was ruled unlawful

The deputy health and disability commissioner has asked a pharmacist to apologise to a deceased patient’s family and told a pharmacy to amend its procedures after the pharmacist failed to pick up an intern’s dispensing error

People's faces are buried in their phones for hours every day, so getting your business noticed on social media is more important than ever, even if you’re not selling products online

Health minister Ayesha Verrall launched a new strategy to leave the “old” health system behind and aim for equity and improved outcomes 

From 1 August pharmacist vaccinators will have four new funded vaccines in their toolbox

Frustration at patients’ lack of understanding about pharmacy prompted Paige Rangi, then a pharmacy student, to study what could be done, writes Paulette Crowley