Pharmacy Practice

After years of talking to patients with long-term conditions about their medications, Christchurch pharmacist Katrina Azer critiques existing services and urges a new approach for the good of patients and health-sector budgets

After more than three decades, Nancy Fatch looks back at life in a country pharmacy. Paulette Crowley reports 

Auckland pharmacy academic Amy Chan is a recent appointee to the Pharmacy Council. She tells Anna Lee work really isn’t work if you enjoy what you’re doing

Late last year, we (Moore Markhams) released our ninth annual pharmacy benchmarking survey. The survey covered a range of financial measures based on 170 pharmacies of various types and sizes from all corners of the country

The health sector has always appealed to Amy Chan

Naloxone can help prevent deaths from opioid overdoses and the NZ Drug Foundation says it should be readily available in pharmacy

One of the architects of an overhaul of the health system believes pharmacists in the future will play a greater role in vaccination and treating minor health conditions in the community

Has your annual practising certificate expired within the last three years? The Pharmacy Council hopes you may be willing to dust off your white coat and re-join the workforce 

Whilst Omicron has arrived on New Zealand’s doorstep, Hamilton locals are flocking to vaccination centres across the city to get their third dose

With Aotearoa now at red in the traffic light settings in a bid to keep Omicron at bay, stockpilers have returned in droves and cleared entire supermarkets and pharmacies of their pain-relief stock