May 2019

Under the new pharmacy contract, the Integrated Community Pharmacy Services Agreement, $4.1 million has been allocated for local commissioning of services.That’s all those added extras that pharmacists are encouraged to take up. 

On 1 October 2018, the new and much anticipated Integrated Community Pharmacy Services Agreement came into force. The new contract promised to inject more than $20 million in new funding into the sector and provide flexibility to develop local services. Seven months on, reporter Jonathan Chilton-Towle looks at what the contract has delivered

Authorities in the Australian state of Victoria now have instant access to prescription data for high-risk medicines, and on this side of the Tasman, the Medicines Classification Committee is considering introducing a similar system

The direction of the draft community pharmacy services strategy the Northland DHB is currently considering has won some support, but two pharmacists say it includes a few worrying details

Next year's date of 31 January for the reclassification of codeine coming into force has been extended, Medsafe group manager Chris James says

Christchurch pharmacist Des Bailey and young Taranaki pharmacist Deema Alusi answer this month’s question

Understanding how consumers view money and how their spending habits could change may reap rewards on the shop floor, writes ASB head of healthcare David Rhind

A small team of pharmacists working for Otago and Southland’s only PHO is hoping to recruit the help of southern community pharmacists to deliver clinical services as demand grows