July 2019

Christchurch pharmacist Sarah Mooney believes pharmacies are best placed for easy, accessible care for children. Here, she takes a look at the top five ways pharmacies can help parents and caregivers in the first year of their child’s life 

Rural pharmacy owners often say it’s difficult to attract young pharmacists to small towns, but one 25-year-old can’t stay away from the tiny settlement of Cromwell

Game of Thrones’ multi-faceted storyline uncannily reflects the goings-on in the pharmacy sector, writes ASB Bank head of healthcare David Rhind

Otago pharmacy educator David Woodshas recently returned from Lithuania,where he did his bit to shape the clinical pharmacy skills of that country’s next generation of pharmacists

For many of us non-Māori – perhaps those who will not see the age of 40 again – Matariki has only in recent years entered our consciousness

Nearly a year after starting pay talks, 14 Northland DHB pharmacy staff have ratified a pay deal for the equivalent of a 9 per cent pay increase over three years

Medicine shortages are increasing worldwide, especially in Europe and the US where stocks of hundreds of medicines are low at any given time

An unprecedented number of Kiwis have had flu jabs this year; so many that the national stock of vaccine has been exhausted. In response, the Ministry of Health is asking vaccinators to limit vaccinations to high-risk populations and share stock among themselves

The Napier pharmacy trialling the instore virtual-doctor service, Doctor2Go, has found patients are very interested in the concept but not so much in using it.