Three medicinal cannabis companies, one of which includes a pharmacy, announced their intention to merge last week, in a move they hope will outcompete the black market.
The move from three-month to 12-month prescriptions announced in last month’s Budget 2025 is raising concerns about the implications for pharmaceutical wastage and climate change, clinical pharmacist and University of Auckland associate professor Amy Chan says.
Where and why community pharmacies are situated in New Zealand is driven by urbanisation at the expense of nationwide medical needs, a new study has found.
A failure on the part of the Government in last week’s Budget to further invest in medicines is concerning, Medicines New Zealand chief executive officer Graeme Jarvis says
Pharmacists working in general practice are calling the non-renewal of funding for Comprehensive Primary Care Teams in last week’s Budget, “gutting” and say, “the Government doesn’t understand primary care”.
Former PSNZ president Ian McMichael is very pleased to see PSNZ’s Award for Services to Māori in Pharmacy whakairo honours board finally hung in the PSNZ boardroom where “people will see it”.
A new roadside drug-testing regime may see law-abiding citizens with legal prescriptions barred from driving for a period of 12 hours, reports Jody Hopkinson
A new roadside drug-testing regime may see law-abiding citizens with legal prescriptions barred from driving for a period of 12 hours, reports Jody Hopkinson
