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Becoming the country’s “largest cul-de-sac” following the Kaikōura quake helped hasten the closure of the Cheviot community’s long-standing pharmacy depot

The nationwide junior doctors’ strike has not helped the slow pace of hospital pharmacy pay talks, with Canterbury and Northland DHB still to sign off on formal pay offers for Apex union members

Aged care providers query Auckland DHBs’ over-optimistic summary of views on the age-related residential care proposal 

Authorities in the Australian state of Victoria now have instant access to prescription data for high-risk medicines, and on this side of the Tasman, the Medicines Classification Committee is considering introducing a similar system

Unichem Maxx, Green Cross Health’s supersize test pharmacy at 500 Ti Rakau Drive in Auckland closed recently, about a year after a Chemist Warehouse store opened next door.

When the first Chemist Warehouse opened in Auckland, the discount pharmacy giant was tipped to swiftly dominate the New Zealand pharmacy market, as it has done in Australia where it has more than 400 stores. A year and a half later, there are five stores in Auckland, with a least one more opening soon

Exercise could guard against disease by triggering a hormone which helps regrow brain cells, a US study has found

Pharmacists around New Zealand are banding together to access funding under the new pharmacy services contract

An Auckland pharmacist who co-owns 12 North Island pharmacies has been fined and censured by the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal for failing to meet recertification requirements over an extended period

Under the new pharmacy contract, the Integrated Community Pharmacy Services Agreement, $4.1 million has been allocated for local commissioning of services.That’s all those added extras that pharmacists are encouraged to take up.