Community Pharmacy

The Government’s cost of living policy of making most prescriptions free is working, with almost 3 million free scripts provided to around 900,000 New Zealanders since the $5 co-payment was removed on July 1, Minister of Health Dr Ayesha Verrall has announced.

A National Government will pay for 13 cancer treatments that are helping extend survival rates in Australia, by making them available to patients in New Zealand, National Leader Christopher Luxon says.

Buying a community pharmacy is an ambition for many pharmacy students and pharmacists. Paulette Crowley finds out the risks and rewards

More than 60,000 minor ailments consults have been carried out by community pharmacies since the programme started less than two months ago

As hospital emergency departments are overwhelmed by a record influx of patients this winter, pharmacists are calling for the minor ailments scheme to be urgently expanded nationwide

Vaping rates are rising as fast as tobacco rates are dropping, particularly in children and adolescents. Paulette Crowley takes a look at what part pharmacy could play in reducing vaping

E-lockers are used extensively in European and US pharmacies, and are now being trialled in New Zealand 

The workforce woes keep coming as being understaffed and underpaid continues to pile pressure on exhausted pharmacy staff. And fewer students are choosing to become pharmacists, reports Paulette Crowley

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 workforce woes keep coming as being understaffed and underpaid continues to pile pressure on exhausted pharmacy staff. And fewer students are choosing to become pharmacists, reports Paulette Crowley