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Pharmacist and PhD candidate Robert Haua (Ngāi Te Rangi) has been awarded the first School of Pharmacy Doctoral Publication Excellence award for his paper “Pharmacist integration into general practice in New Zealand” 
 

The Health and Disability Commissioner has found a pharmacy manager who made a dispensing error that resulted in the hospitalisation of a patient then altered the certified repeat copy to frame a colleague for it

The Muslim holy month of Ramadan - which draws to a close on Sunday, has been a challenge in more and markedly different ways than usual during COVID-19

New Zealand moved to Alert Level 2 nearly a week ago, but for the majority of pharmacies not much has changed.  

Levin pharmacy owners Neville Gimblett and Phil Berry recruited volunteers from the local community to deliver medication to anyone - regardless of age or socio-economic status - for free, and often without payment for the medication 

In a pre-Budget funding announcement earlier today, the Government announced $3.92 billion in extra funding for DHBs over the next four years, but Pharmaceutical Society president Ian McMichael is “sceptical” the pharmacy sector will benefit from it.  

Community pharmacists have an important role in ensuring and delivering an equitable response for vulnerable communities – particularly Māori and Pasifika, during the COVID-19 crisis, says University of Otago School of Pharmacy associate dean (Māori), Leanne Te Karu

The devastating retail sales slump continues to plague pharmacies across the country, according to latest figures produced by RPM Retail 

All community pharmacists and pharmacy staff are now eligible for a funded influenza vaccination due to COVID-19. 

Moving to COVID-19 Alert Level 3 will offer no respite to the pharmacy sector’s devastating retail sales slump, according to RPM Retail chief executive, John Saywell