Health Funding

Hugh Lopdell, director of Oak Park Chartered Accountants, talks through the Government’s COVID-19 support for pharmacists and other financial issues facing pharmacists

Pharmacies in the inner city and malls, along with urgent pharmacies, are hardest hit by the COVID-19 lockdown, two pharmacy-focused accountants say

Community pharmacies’ bank balances should look a little healthier, as all $15 million of the support package promised to the sector has been promptly paid out 

The Government is preparing a $15 million payment to support pharmacies during the COVID-19 crisis

National Hauora Coalition says more than money needed to protect health of Māori in pandemic 

Pharmacists around the country have revealed exactly how worried they are about the ever-worsening COVID-19 pandemic, according to a survey by Pharmacy Today

Bid to delay COVID-19 community transmission as long as possible behind expanded testing plans 

The Government today announced plans to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of young adults against measles, but the Pharmaceutical Society president worries DHBs may not involve pharmacists in the programme

The Pharmacy Council is going ahead with a small increase to next year’s annual practising certificate fee despite opposition

Pharmacy profits are still falling according to the latest Moore Markhams Pharmacy Benchmarking Survey, but there are ways pharmacies can boost their bottom line, and signs of government help on the horizon. Pharmacy Today journalist Angela Woods reports