Pharmacy Practice

COVID-19’s effect has seen the signature-exempt prescribing waiver extended again, until 21 June 

The final instalment of the Pharmacy Council’s relief funding worth $800,000 is up for grabs, but to the council’s surprise, the number of applications so far has been disappointing

From selling fish on the side of the road as a high-school dropout to working to eliminate inequitable access to funded medicines, Andrea Copeland’s journey hasn’t always been straightforward

Following Pharmac going ahead with a controversial drug switch for epilepsy, a suggestion to health authorities to add an alert prompt to the pharmacy PMS was ignored, Pharmacy Guild chief executive Andrew Gaudin says

Ngā Kaitiaki o Te Puna Rongoā o Aotearoa –Māori Pharmacists’ Association president Kevin Pewhairangi is concerned the Pharmacy Council did not take a partnership approach to developing its new recertification framework for pharmacists

Ngā Kaitiaki o Te Puna Rongoā o Aotearoa –Māori Pharmacists’ Association president Kevin Pewhairangi is concerned the Pharmacy Council did not take a partnership approach to developing its new recertification framework for pharmacists

Submissions are rolling in on new regulations for selling vaping products but there are signs the­ ­pharmacy sector’s interest in selling such products is on the wane

From selling fish on the side of the road as a high-school dropout to working to eliminate inequitable access to funded medicines, Andrea Copeland’s journey hasn’t always been straightforward

The chair of Pharmac’s Pharmacology and Therapeutics Advisory Committee was grilled today over the body’s approach to assessing whether a controversial drug-funding switch should have taken place 

In painstaking detail today, Pharmac outlined steps taken to manage a controversial anti-epilepsy drug-funding switch, while a UK epilepsy advocate offered the coronial inquest an alternative approach