Patients

A health-check service set up by an ED doctor to cut the rate of preventable deaths is making its way into pharmacy. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports on developments

Pharmacist and non-practising legal expert Máté Hegedus-Gaspar explains why refusing to dispense medicines to an abusive patient may be the right decision for legal reasons

Katrina Azer, a clinical pharmacist for Tend Health, looks at reasons why patients don’t take their medicines correctly and how health professionals can address it

More than 200 people have applied for assisted dying since it became legal and 66 people up to 31 March have had an assisted death, the Ministry of Health’s first quarterly report shows

Nearly 90 Pharmacies nationwide have put their hands up to dispense free rapid antigen tests to eligible Kiwis.

Health Navigator NZ’s  new collection of free local resources for COVID-19-positive people are aimed at simplifying difficult concepts and supporting those isolating at home 

The Grey Lynn GP whose home care plan for COVID-19 went global last year is describing the current COVID response in New Zealand as a “schemozzle”

Demand for COVID-19 vaccination has ramped up in pharmacy since a nationwide lockdown was announced last week

Consumer New Zealand, a watchdog organisation “dedicated to getting New Zealanders a fairer deal”, is in hot water with the pharmacy sector after posting on social media a 2003 cover highly critical of the profession

Compassion is crucial, but it’s not as simple as turning on a switch, psychiatrist Tony Fernando told the NZHPA conference