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Treasurer of the Pacific Pharmacists’ Association and pharmacy owner Natalia Nu’u gives her perspective on what needs to change in the sector

The afterglow of the New Zealand Primary Healthcare Awards | He Tohu Mauri Ora is still providing some warmth as we celebrate our pharmacy stars who made it on to the stage on 15 May

Working in rural ­pharmacy has been great for my pharmacy practice. I have been working in rural pharmacy for the past six years, and enjoyed the freedom and potential for positive intervention it has given me so far, writes Megan Harrop

Pharmacist Mena Alsaffar owns Turuki Pharmacy Panmure and Papakura Marae Pharmacy in Auckland alongside her husband, Jaffer Al-Jumaily. She arrived in New Zealand at age four, after emigrating from Iraq with her ­parents Ahmed and Eman, who are also pharmacists

Pharmaceutical Society president Professor Rhiannon Braund writes, “Pharmacy needs to keep its head above water until the ‘system’ comes to the realisation that we are the answer to many of the current health system needs”

The opening of new Auckland premises for Whakarongorau Aotearoa (formerly Homecare Medical) last month, drew an unusual display of ministerial might which included the prime minister, three Cabinet ministers (including Andrew Little) and media darling Ashley Bloomfield (who obligingly posed for many selfies)

It would have come as some relief to many pharmacists when the Pharmacy Council announced a breather on its plans for ongoing professional development

From blurred boundaries to the next big thing in pharmacy, Pauline McQuoid chats to Anna Lee about clinical pharmacy and life in the beautiful Bay of Plenty

Isabella McLoughlin, one of the first graduates of the Otago School of Pharmacy taught under the new curriculum, writes about the new focus on communication skills and being “job ready”  

Continuing the four part series for prospective pharmacy purchasers, in his latest instalment of business advice for pharmacies, Oak Park Chartered Accountants director Hugh Lopdell chats about buying a pharmacy: the first two years