Budget 2024: Te Awamutu pharmacy owner Gemma Perry thinks every pharmacist in New Zealand will be feeling “pretty gutted” to hear the Government is bringing back the $5 Prescription fee on 1 July
Pharmacists say they are seeing an increase in drug seeking since pseudoephedrine-containing medicines returned to their shelves and are calling for a national register to record sales of the products
A Motueka pharmacy may have been the first in the country to get burgled for pseudoephedrine in 13 years, less than a week after the product became available again
Using artificial intelligence to make prescribing safer for older people is at the heart of research attracting nearly $400,000 in grant funding from the Health Research Council
The Government’s plan to reinstate the $5 prescription fee for most New Zealanders will lead to an increase in hospitalisations costing the country tens of millions of dollars a year, Te Herenga Waka University of Victoria researchers have found
New Zealand Customs is detaining and destroying on average 8000 packages containing medicines at the border per year, with the most commonly seized items being antibiotics
