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Supporting Gumboot Day opens up a space for conversations with customers, says Allison Gallagher, senior pharmacist at Sanders Pharmacy in Te Awamutu

Eighteen months on from Cyclone Gabrielle, pharmacists are worried lessons have not been learned from that disaster, as Jody Hopkinson reports

Santa Claus’ southernmost letter box has opened in an Invercargill pharmacy, inviting children to send their Christmas wishlist to the man in red and his team at the North Pole.  

The Pharmacy Council is asking for feedback on its proposed increase to its combined disciplinary levy and annual practising fee, which could exceed more than $1000 next year

Pharmacists are neck-and-neck with GPs when it comes to the number of influenza vaccinations administered this year.  

Opposition is growing to the proposed merger of Chemist Warehouse and Sigma Healthcare across the Tasman

The Pharmacy Guild and other pharmacy sector representatives have asked for a hui with Te Whatu Ora, Pharmac and wholesalers to address frustrations over the roll out of continuous glucose monitors

A pharmacist-led charity is saving good medications and supplies from going into landfills and sending them to be of use overseas. 

Waikato University’s inaugural postgraduate course is already two-thirds full, ahead of enrolments officially opening

A new advertising campaign featuring famous New Zealanders aims to reduce the social stigma around herpes and could lead more people into pharmacies to have the virus treated.