April 2025

The number of thefts from pharmacies has skyrocketed since 2023. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

A Kaikōura pharmacy owner has been fighting for a patient on opioid substitution to get his licence returned after he tested positive for THC. Jody Hopkinson reports

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

THE INDIGESTION medication Zantac is back on pharmacy shelves after being recalled in 2019.

Jonathan Chilton-Towle speaks to Firas Mudafar about how pharmacies are paid

Dunedin pharmacist Peter Barron was a sometimes-controversial fgure, but his friends and colleagues remember him fondly. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

Rural pharmacists say their courier bill has doubled in the past fve years, and when couriers are unavailable, pharmacy staff are having to take time away from the dispensing bench to deliver medications. Jody Hopkinson reports

Rangi Morgan may have been the first Māori-Chinese woman to become a pharmacist in New Zealand. Jody Hopkinson speaks to her about her life and career

Whanganui phar mac y owners met with their local MP recently to explain the issues faced by pharmacists in his electorate. They are encouraging pharmacists in other regions to meet with their local MPs and advocate for pharmacy.

IT’S BEEN 25 YEARS OF ups and downs and nearly all the way out of the industry for Mt Maunganui pharmacist Daphne Earles, but as she settles her pharmacy into its freshly built space, above all else, she is feeling “grateful”.