Pharmacists are quietly confident they will be up to the task of offering childhood vaccinations should a proposal before the Medicines Classification Committee to expand access to vaccines get the green light
PSNZ lost nearly $260,000 last year, primarily due to members leaving because it was no longer required of them be part of the ENHANCE programme to meet professional development targets
In our series “A great place to work” Pharmacy Today highlights pharmacies offering a work culture that attracts and retains staff. This month, we visit culturally diverse Victory Square Pharmacy in Nelson. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports
As the pharmacy workforce crisis persists, more pharmacies around the country are cutting hours and even closing due to lack of staff. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports
Pharmacy gets a mention in the Government’s newly released interim New Zealand Health Plan but the document contains few announcements for the sector with little detail about how the measures in it will be implemented or paid for
Picton pharmacist Graeme Smith is calling on cruise ship companies to make sure their passengers understand New Zealand’s COVID-19 rules on mask wearing
Another pharmacist has been reprimanded by the Health and Disability Commissioner for a dispensing error, this time for mistakenly giving a patient the anti-cholesterol medication ezetimibe instead of the cancer medication exemestane.
The waiver allowing pharmacies to dispense non-electronic prescriptions without a physical prescriber signature will expire in three days and the Ministry of Health has not yet decided if it should continue