Pharmacy Council

The Pharmacy Guild and PSNZ both agree pharmacy workforce regulation needs to be streamlined, as the Government works on a policy that could see the Pharmacy Council rolled into a single health regulator.

The Pharmacy Council agrees with the intention of a government plan to streamline health workforce regulation but says some ideas suggested, such as reducing the number of regulatory bodies, could have unintended consequences, including increased risk to public safety.  

The Pharmacy Council has a new chair, Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

Like a real-life Frodo and Gandalf and the Fellowship of the Ring, leaders of New Zealand’s pharmacy representative groups have combined to form a pharmacy sector supergroup, but rather than battling Sauron, the Pharmacy Sector Leaders Forum will be advocating for pharmacists. 

The new chair of the Pharmacy Council is Ming-chun Wu, a chartered director and teacher

A Christchurch media outlet has published an article containing comments from unnamed pharmacists who have issues will the Pharmacy Council’s competency standard but not all pharmacists agree, reports Jonathan Chilton-Towle

The Pharmacy Council is seeking nominations for new members, says Associate Health Minister David Seymour

Several pharmacists have hit out at an article criticising the Pharmacy Council’s competency standards as “racism on steroids”, saying the views expressed are not held by many pharmacists

Pharmacists who are “free-thinking and solutions focused” are being called on to join the Pharmacy Council by associate health minister David Seymour

THE PHARMACY COUNCIL and Medical Council could be replaced by a Crown entity to regulate pharmacists, doctors and other registered health practitioners, under a review of the current health-worker registration act.