July 2020

As pharmacist prescribers become increasingly popular in New Zealand, Pharmacy Today takes a look at what the varied role entails and finds a lack of funding is stunting its growth. Anna Lee reports 

Greater diversity on its board of directors is a priority for the Pharmacy Guild, and president Cameron Monteith says it’s a natural move that “folds into everything that is happening within health”

Chemist Warehouse has opened its first store outside the North Island. 

The worst is yet to come in Queenstown, predict some pharmacy owners who are hoping to ride out the next two or three years. But there’s a good chance not all pharmacies will survive

New research has highlighted clinical pharmacist facilitators, as an integral part of general practice, enhance the level of care received by patients in New Zealand and identify thousands of medicine-related problems. Anna Lee reports

A study of 172 Māori supermarket shoppers finds labelling gout as urate crystal arthritis makes it less likely the disease will be seen as self-inflicted

Pharmacist and PhD candidate at the University of Auckland School of Pharmacy, Robert Haua (Ngāi Te Rangi), has been awarded the first School of Pharmacy Doctoral Publication Excellence Award for his paper “Pharmacist integration into general practice in New Zealand”

Natural products manufacturer HoneyLab has been able to bypass restrictions on making health claims about natural products by getting three of its honey products reclassified as medical devices

There is still no date for when MPs will consider the legislation replacing the Medicines Act 1981

The long-delayed legislation for natural health products has been further delayed by the COVID-19 epidemic.