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The Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand held its Annual Spring Stakeholder Function on 19 September at the Wellesley Boutique Hotel in central Wellington. About 50 pharmacy sector movers and shakers attended the networking drinks and nibbles function. Health minister David Clark put in a surprise appearance too. The society used the event to discuss its five-year strategic plan. Pharmacy Today was there to record the event.
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
