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Primary healthcare’s glitziest night of the year, the New Zealand Primary Healthcare Awards | He Tohu Mauri Ora is fast approaching – and time is quickly running out to enter  

All community pharmacists have contractual obligations to address inequity and honour the Treaty of Waitangi, but many don’t realise it

The right of Māori to experience equitable health outcomes in relation to medicine review services must be realised by improving Māori older adults’ autonomy and control and by better use of pharmacists’ skills, according to the latest research by clinical pharmacist Jo Hikaka 

New Zealand prescribers are writing more scripts for medicinal cannabis than ever before despite serious barriers still facing patients seeking these products

Retail figures have “definitely returned to normal this month”, says RPM Retail chief executive John Saywell. But, he warns, community pharmacies aren’t out of the woods just yet

Poor patient survey ratings have spurred Auckland’s DHBs to provide those about to be discharged from hospital with health education cards

Pharmac has funded a new brand of oestradiol patches in an attempt to ease the long-running shortage of the hormone replacement therapy product which is causing problems for pharmacies and their patients

A longitudinal study of the treatment offered to 45,000 south Auckland diabetes patients is well-intentioned while fundamentally flawed, says Pacific health researcher

Some pharmacies which mistakenly claimed the wage subsidy have already repaid it, pharmacy sector accountants say. 

"Cultural safety: What does it look like in pharmacy and why do we need it?" is the topic of this Popcorn Panel webinar, held on 28 October, 2020