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During the week, Green Cross Health regional manager Bronwen Shepherd is a well-known face in the Wellington pharmacy sector. But in the weekend, she can usually be found working as a ranger at the Zealandia wildlife reserve or in Thorndon, battling to save a local native snail from extinction. Jonathan Chilton-Towle talks to Bronwen about her passion for conservation

With so much change caused by COVID-19 afoot, Pharmacy Today asked pharmacists just after the national lockdown what other changes they wanted to see 

Community pharmacists and GPs will likely be prioritised to receive early vaccinations when stocks of Pfizer’s new COVID-19 vaccine enter the country early next year

Not many people clock up half a century in the same job. Jonathan Chilton-Towle, speaks to 81-year-old Perina Kuljis from ProPharma about her long history of customer service which is not over yet

The IT firm Catalyst has been awarded the contract to develop the next platform for pharmacist recertification in New Zealand

The Ministry of Health is hopeful that problems with the New Zealand ePrescription Service have been resolved since a major disruption last week

The Pharmacy Council has contracted hospital pharmacist Kim Brackley to create guidance on its new recertification requirements

Last month’s reclassification of all codeine-containing medicines to prescription-only appears to have elicited grumbling and concern from patients around New Zealand

The Pharmaceutical Society and Pharmacy Guild are disputing accusations that pharmacies are deliberately overcharging for medicinal cannabis products

Pharmacy profits have climbed slightly for the first time in seven years but this is likely due to an abnormally busy March created by COVID-19, the latest Moore Markhams Pharmacy Benchmarking Survey shows