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When pharmacy technician Melissa Wood returned to her former workplace, Te Aroha Pharmacy, she had “no idea” Pharmacy Today | Kaitiaki Rongoā o te Wā was about to surprise her with a giant $4500 cheque for winning the annual Healthcare Handbook ELearning Path competition

An Auckland pharmacy is struggling to survive after the majority of their patients unexpectedly vanished four months ago – and didn’t come back

The experimental COVID-19 decoy drug made by New Zealand researchers has been found in laboratory tests to slash the coronavirus’ infectivity 

This morning Pharmac announced most temporary dispensing restrictions in place due to the COVID-19 crisis will end at midnight on 31 July

The Medicines Classification Committee will tomorrow consider a proposal to reclassify the Human Papillomavirus vaccine so pharmacist vaccinators can offer it without a prescription

Chemist Warehouse has opened its first store outside the North Island. 

The Health and Disability System Review panel’s vision for community-based services includes more integration, a funding ringfence and fewer DHBs. Jonathan Chilton-Towle asks what, if anything, it means for the pharmacy sector 

Greater diversity on its board of directors is a priority for the Pharmacy Guild, and president Cameron Monteith says it’s a natural move that “folds into everything that is happening within health”

The Department of Corrections and Clendon Pharmacy have been found to have breached a prisoner’s rights following an ongoing medication management failure that led to him being hospitalised four times

Central Region Technical Advisory Services, which works with all 20 DHBs, has rubbished claims made by pharmacists to Pharmacy Today who say monthly dispensing creates more work in the dispensary, but doesn’t generate any more income.