December 2020

For those of us lucky enough to have time off over the summer, it feels as if this year our break will be more of a hiatus, a brief shelter from the storm, before plunging back in to face whatever may come next year

No one predicted a chaos-causing virus sweeping the globe as 2019 wound up 12 months ago. Anna Lee and Jonathan Chilton-Towle  take a look in the rear-view mirror of the departing year to see how the industry fared 

Pharmacy Today reporter Jonathan Chilton-Towle speaks to health minister Andrew Little about his plans for the pharmacy sector

Pharmacies all over New Zealand are receiving relief payments from the Pharmacy Council to give them a well-earned break

Pharmacy students around the country are readying their regalia for their upcoming graduations after a “hell of a year” of tertiary-level learning during a global pandemic

Last month’s reclassification of all codeine-containing medicines to prescription-only appears to have elicited grumbling and concern from patients around New Zealand

So begins the winning entry in the inaugural The Health Media Short Story Competition – The Shorties

For Christchurch pharmacist Máté Hegedus-Gaspar pharmacy is just one of the many strings to his bow. He talks to Anna Lee 

Canterbury community pharmacies have begun using a shared electronic platform to better serve their patients on opioid substitution therapy and save time for clinicians