The Pharmaceutical Society is asking the Pharmacy Council to delay its proposed changes to the pharmacist recertification process until 2022 and is backing its request with results from a recent survey of the profession.
The Government has extended the waiver allowing pharmacies to dispense non-NZePS (New Zealand Electronic Prescription Service) prescriptions without a physical prescriber signature for another three months
Wellington pharmacist Laura Dowd works at Clive’s Chemist in Wainuiomata and is planning to head to Australia to take on a PhD at Monash University. There, she hopes to continue her hobby of exploring under the sea. Jonathan Chilton-Towle chats to Laura about scuba-diving
Medicinal cannabis should be available through pharmacies before the end of this year, says Sally King who heads the body representing New Zealand’s fledgling medicinal cannabis industry
Taking over the reins of the well-known Raumati Road Pharmacy on the Kapiti Coast at the height of the COVID-19 lockdown was a mixed bag for new owner Martin Lowis
Unprecedented changes to the way the New Zealand health system is organised are coming and pharmacists need to be involved at the top levels where decisions are made
When Dunedin-based clinical pharmacists Angela Renall, Melissa Copland and Sonia Cox turned up to work on 19 March, they had no idea that just a few hours later they would be nasally swabbing for COVID-19