Pharmacies asked to increase evening and weekend hours

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Pharmacies asked to increase evening and weekend hours

Jody Hopkinson and Jonathan Chilton-Towle
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Community pharmacies around New Zealand are being asked to fill the gaps in after-hours services caused by general practice’s workforce crisis. Jody Hopkinson and Jonathan Chilton-Towle report

We can’t rely on our hospital systems to see everyone on the weekends and early intervention means they don’t end up at the hospital, so pharmacy is a