In this article, Sue Frankland looks at the global problem of wastage of medications, including causes such as overprescribing and non-adherence. She also presents information from her master’s dissertation on how people understand, and respond to, medication expiration dates
The long and winding road to president of the guild
Sunday 1 December 2019, 02:00 AM
Julie and Cameron Monteith run Western Heights Pharmacy in Rotorua
From serving as a military pharmacist on a UN mission to Cambodia, to running a community pharmacy in one of New Zealand’s most deprived communities, to being elected Pharmacy Guild president – Cameron Monteith has had a varied and interesting pharmacy career. Pharmacy Today reporter Jonathan Chilton-Towle speaks to Cameron about his life and the future direction he sees for the pharmacy sector
You can find Western Heights Pharmacy in a small block of suburban shops in western Rotorua, near a Four Square, a liquor store and a few takeaway bar