July 2022

Ngā mihi o te tau hou – happy Māori new year. The country’s first public holiday for Matariki has passed and up and down the country, Kiwis got out to embrace the event in all kinds of ways.

Sky-high salaries could mean New Zealand pharmacies “go to the wall”, as is happening in the UK, says the Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand president. Paulette Crowley reports

As pharmacists received a $10 million boost to the coffers last month from the COVID Care in the Community Fund, it has been revealed that general practice received $23.4 million from the same fund

The pharmacy sector will be watching and waiting this month as 20 DHBs give way to Health New Zealand and the Māori Health Authority. Jonathan Chilton-Towle looks at what might happen

With many pharmacists, particularly young pharmacists, feeling disillusioned and burned out, Pharmacy Today is seeking great pharmacies serving their communities, while enabling pharmacists to work at top of scope and offering all the cool services they learned about at pharmacy school. This month, Jonathan Chilton-Towle visits sister pharmacies in Wellington’s Hutt Valley

The Pharmaceutical Society is considering changing its fee structure to better suit members as its numbers have declined by around 10 per cent

As Life Pharmacy Prices’ Nikki Welsh faces a stage-four cancer diagnosis, her staff of 61 are fundraising via a givealittle page to provide financial support to her family while they spend as much time with her as possible, Paulette Crowley reports

Pharmacist prescribers can now prescribe COVID antiviral medicines, although they fear delays means many people have missed out, Paulette Crowley reports

The Hutt Valley and Tairāwhiti DHBs have attempted to stop the Pharmacy Guild from getting involved in a judicial review of their decisions to grant pharmacy contracts to Countdown Pharmacies in Wainuiomata and Gisborne.

Keshree Naidoo-Rauf, co-owner of Unichem Pharmacy Rototuna and Unichem Pharmacy Te Rapa, answers Pharmacy Today’s questions about her life and work