A small survey of members conducted recently by the Independent Pharmacists Association of New Zealand (IPANZ) shows more than half of the 52 members surveyed are considering changing careers away from community pharmacy.
THE MANAGER of UFS Pharmacy Wellington says the council’s Let’s Get Wellington Moving plan was the final nail in the coffin for the 130-year-old business.
The deputy health and disability commissioner has asked a pharmacist to apologise to a deceased patient’s family and told a pharmacy to amend its procedures after the pharmacist failed to pick up an intern’s dispensing error.
NEW ZEALAND’S LARGEST medicines exporter, Douglas Pharmaceuticals, has hit out at the Therapeutic Products Bill saying it will create unnecessary red tape for exporters.
More than one quarter of pharmacies would have unlawful licences under the recent High Court ruling on pharmacy ownership, information from the Ministry of Health confirms