March 2021

Michaela Hamilton-Roake talks to Anna Lee about her side hustle and the time an unlucky patient took a punt with an inappropriate picture

I recently published a video entitled “The Discounter Battle Part 2”, which was republished as an opinion piece in Pharmacy Today 

The 25th of this month marks a year since New Zealand’s government-ordered COVID-19 lockdown first began

Unichem Hickeys Pharmacy in Ōrewa became one of the few pharmacies to experience what business owners dread – being visited by a customer with COVID-19.  Owner Ken Hickey speaks to Jonathan Chilton-Towle about how he and his team dealt with the aftermath,  and offers tips for how to cope

From selling fish on the side of the road as a high-school dropout to working to eliminate inequitable access to funded medicines, Andrea Copeland’s journey hasn’t always been straightforward

A Japanese-speaking pharmacist rushed to the aid of a Japanese student who was pulled out of the CTV wreckage, others jumped into their four-wheel-drives to get people out of the CBD. And in the aftermath, pharmacies were run out of utility rooms and portacoms for years. Here are some of the stories that came out of the disaster that struck the city 10 years ago. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

Chemist Warehouse is on the hunt for large premises in Dunedin,
while its competitor Bargain Chemist has already snapped up
central-city premises for its 10th store nationwide

Canada’s business-friendly laws on product health claims has led Dunedin-based Blis Technologies to halve its earnings forecast in preparation for a stab at expanding its market share off-shore

Moore Markhams Auckland director Jonathan Roberts urges pharmacists to develop their financial literacy so they can take charge of their own destiny

Tina Hillier programme coordinator for the ENGAGE Pharmacy Group in Christchurch, trials new products on the market, and extensions to popular ranges