Pharmacy Practice

Three pharmacists have received New Year Honours: Natalie Gauld, Bernie McKone and retired coroner Wallace Bain

The English pharmacy sector is begging the NHS to stop stealing community pharmacists to work in general practice after three years of a programme similar to one being proposed here.

A leaked document from a Ministry of Health official pleads with the health minister to urgently add 30 professions – including pharmacy – to the immigration Green List 

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

The long-awaited judicial review of DHB contracting decisions between independent pharmacists and Te Whatu Ora is set to start on 21 November

The long-awaited judicial review of DHB contracting decisions between independent pharmacists and Te Whatu Ora is set to start on 21 November.

The English pharmacy sector is begging the NHS to stop stealing community pharmacists to work in general practice after three years of a programme similar to one being proposed here.

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

Pharmacy gets a mention in the Government’s newly released interim New Zealand Health Plan but the document contains few announcements for the sector with little detail about how the measures in it will be implemented or paid for

A dispute over the upskilling of community pharmacists for new roles in general practice has broken out, just as Te Whatu Ora prepares to usher in more of them, reports Ruth Brown