Otago School of Pharmacy

The exec team set to lead the Association of Pharmacy Students in Otago next year has been announced

Pharmacists wanting to become pharmacist prescribers can now do so for free in Auckland or Otago

OVERALL STUDENT numbers are climbing at the schools of pharmacy in Auckland and Otago.

Overall student numbers are climbing at the schools of pharmacy in Auckland and Otago

In this blast from the past we look back on the first-ever Otago White Coat ceremony held in February 2012

One-hundred-and-one future pharmacists donned their white coats for the first time this weekend at the University of Otago Pharmacy School

Carlo Marra, dean of the University of Otago’s School of Pharmacy, is leaving his position

The workforce woes keep coming as being understaffed and underpaid continues to pile pressure on exhausted pharmacy staff. And fewer students are choosing to become pharmacists, reports Paulette Crowley

University of Otago researchers are calling for the $5 prescription copayment to be scrapped after their randomised control trial showed the fee is damaging the health of vulnerable populations. 

Being stranded on a remote tropical island and stepping in as the chief pharmacist for an entire country are just some of early-career pharmacist Annaliese Cooper’s adventures. She shares them with Paulette Crowley