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All around the world, there are likely to be more rules and red tape for complementary medicine manufacturers wanting to sell their products

Three Invercargill pharmacists have set up shop in Invercargill’s Very Low Cost Access practice, He Puna Waiora Wellness Centre, introducing a new way for patients to meet copayment costs. 

For more than a decade, Grant Bai was a well-known figure in the New Zealand pharmacy sector. Before his resignation last year, he had been the head of Green Cross Health’s pharmacy division for six years. Pharmacy Today reporter Jonathan Chilton-Towle caught up with Grant last month to find out what he’s been up to since leaving pharmacy

A pharmacy, a GP and a disability service provider have been ordered to review their procedures and apologise after an incorrect prescription resulted in the anti-seizure medication midazolam being incorrectly administered to a disabled patient

More than 98 per cent of pharmacy contract holders have signed variation 1A of the Integrated Community Pharmacy Services Agreement, giving them access to an extra $9.6 million in funding

A new tool can help clinicians decide whether the benefits of aspirin will outweigh the risk for individual patients

From next year, all new pharmacists will be trained as vaccinators to curb increasing rates of infectious disease in New Zealand

Nyamuragira and nitrofurantoin – one is an antibiotic used to treat urinary tract infections and one is a volcano that recently erupted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Bernadette Brown is a Scottish pharmacist who has applied her independent prescribing skills and business acumen to transforming her community pharmacy into an award-winning community health hub.

Prescription fees are preventing patients from collecting medicines and the prescription subsidy scheme is confusing and cumbersome, the interim Health and Disability System Review has found