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Pharmacy enters unknown territory as reforms kick in

Jonathan Chilton-Towle

Boat's wheel
Godspeed: The good ship pharmacy will be leaving its familiar DHB-governed seas as health reforms start to roll out this month [Image: Maximilian Weisbecker on Unsplash]

The pharmacy sector will be watching and waiting this month as 20 DHBs give way to Health New Zealand and the Māori Health Authority. Jonathan Chilton-Towle looks at what might happen

It’s 1 July and the big switch to the new health system has happened. The Opposition’s health spokesperson Shane Reti predicts that pharmacists will h