Pharmaceutical Society

How can pharmacists make the most difference to the healthcare of New Zealanders? Pharmaceutical Society communications adviser Jo Leahy talks to pharmacists and GPs 

The Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand held its annual spring stakeholder function last night in Wellington

The death by overdose of a Dunedin student has sparked calls to bring paracetamol into line with UK standards and restrict it to pharmacy-only sales. 

The Pharmacy Council will not delay the implementation of its proposed changes to pharmacist recertification, despite the Pharmaceutical Society asking it to do so

The questionnaires have been distributed and the numbers crunched. Now results are in on how pharmacists on the shop floor are feeling – and it’s not good. Ruth Brown and Anna Lee report

A Pharmaceutical Society survey of early-career pharmacists makes for grim reading, as nearly a third of them plan to leave within five years 

The Pharmaceutical Society is asking the Pharmacy Council to delay its proposed changes to the pharmacist recertification process until 2022 and is backing its request with results from a recent survey of the profession. 

Unprecedented changes to the way the New Zealand health system is organised are coming and pharmacists need to be involved at the top levels where decisions are made

The Pharmaceutical Society says a recently published coroner's report into the death of a man taking clozapine highlights the need for pharmacists to provide a wraparound service for patients taking the drug

The Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand says community pharmacists are in an “ideal position” to help improve physical health outcomes for mental health patients