December 2019

The costs and workload associated with keeping up pharmacist registration are driving locums out of the workforce, and rural pharmacies are suffering

Awards for research posters and oral presentations were presented at the New Zealand Hospital Pharmacists’ Association conference dinner

Rumours of the cough syrup Gees Linctus disappearing from the New Zealand market have been greatly exaggerated, despite the popular medicine becoming restricted to prescription only

Thinking of reasons to be thankful in this our final issue for 2019, I’d like to express heartfelt gratitude that Gees Linctus cough remedy will remain on the dispensary shelves, ­albeit only on presentation of a script 

Pharmacists will be able to give measles, mumps and rubella vaccines from early December in areas at the centre of the measles outbreak, but those in other regions will wait longer

A central Christchurch pharmacy is trialling pedal power to ensure its resthome medicine deliveries arrive on time

Pharmacy profits are still falling according to the latest Moore Markhams Pharmacy Benchmarking Survey, but there are ways pharmacies can boost their bottom line, and signs of government help on the horizon. Pharmacy Today journalist Angela Woods reports

The owner of the only pharmacy in the far north community of Kaeo hopes a new primary care provider taking over her area’s troubled GP clinic will improve her business fortunes

The Pharmacy Council is consulting on a policy on how it will go about publicly naming pharmacists involved in disciplinary actions

Unichem Taumarunui Pharmacy has won the Pharmacy Today Christmas competition