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New Zealand’s hospital pharmacists gathered earlier this month to share the latest advancements in hospital pharmacy and recognise excellence in the profession. 

Thousands of people who have been taking a substitute ADHD medicine will have to start switching back to the original brand now it’s arrived back in the country. However, they won’t need a new script 

A retired pharmacist says allowing the sale of pseudoephedrine products would be a “backwards step” and would lead to armed hold-ups, whereas a practising pharmacist who experienced a hold-up welcomes the return of the products, saying they were an effective tool in pharmacists’ arsenal

The incoming coalition Government is committed to bringing back the $5 prescription fee, ACT Party leader David Seymour says

The documents released today by the incoming Coalition Govenment include a list of the ministers inside and outside Cabinet

A “bug” has prompted Te Whatu Ora to delay this weekend’s planned switchover to the new $38 million Aotearoa Immunisation Register for another week

The maker of the Maxigesic pain relief medication says demand for the drug is strong with the company reporting higher bottom line profit and revenue.

Anti-vax GP Jonie Girouard should undergo a competency review before she practices in New Zealand again, says health and disability commissioner Morag McDowell

Journalist Alan Perrott speaks to Tony Blakely, the Kiwi public health professor now based in Melbourne, who is leading the royal commission into the COVID-19 response, at the Auckland hotel where the commission has been meeting with sector representatives

Several morphine oral liquids will be running out or expiring over the next few months and this is expected to be “a biggie” for pharmacies. At least one brand switch will be required