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A contingent of New Zealand pharmacists and pharmacy leaders travelled to the Scottish city of Glasgow for the International Pharmaceutical Federation’s annual conference. The 78th FIP (International Pharmaceutical Federation) World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences ran from 2 to 6 September. New Zealand pharmacists from the Pharmaceutical Society, University of Otago, New Zealand Defence Force and Canterbury Community Pharmacy Group attended. Pharmaceutical Society president Graeme Smith kindly shared his photos of all the fun with Pharmacy Today.
In this article, Sue Frankland looks at the global problem of wastage of medications, including causes such as overprescribing and non-adherence. She also presents information from her master’s dissertation on how people understand, and respond to, medication expiration dates
