Medicines and Therapies

Robots are not new in pharmacy but at Vivian Pharmacy in New Plymouth, they’ve gone the extra mile to improve the workload of pharmacists tasked with the laborious job of sachet checking

THE PETITION to remove prescription fees for all Community Services Card holders was presented to Parliament on 22 November

About 100 hospital pharmacists attended the first annual conference in three years of the New Zealand Hospital Pharmacists’ Association last month. Paulette Crowley reports on some of the highlights

FROM THE START of next month, medicine containing pholcodine must be moved off the shelves and into the pharmacist-only section

Pharmac’s proposal to fund adrenalin auto injectors has proved hugely popular with health professionals and the public and looks set to be approved before the end of the year

A global supply shortage of GLP-1 agonist drugs - expected to last until next year - has seen manufacturer Lilly ask New Zealand health care providers to consider not prescribing Trulicity to new patients

The new formulation of Bonjela for infants  has been listed as a medical device with Medsafe and it is available to consumers now for infants aged over six months through supermarkets and pharmacies

FROM THE START of next month, medicine containing pholcodine must be moved off the shelves and into the pharmacist-only section.

New guidelines for asthma management were published in 2020. Pharmacist prescriber Helen Cant outlines what has changed in guideline recommendations and, in collaboration with medical writer Gayle Robins, discusses strategies for reducing the disproportionate asthma burden in Māori and Pacific peoples

In part two of a series on how pharmacists can play a role in reducing the “pill burden”, clinical pharmacist for Tend Health, Katrina Azer, outlines the process of deprescribing