November 2022

VACCINE MANDATES may have ended but the Pharmacy Council continues to expect all pharmacists to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Regular online hui for pharmacy to engage with the Ministry of Health has so far ducked any serious discussion of the workforce crisis. Paulette Crowley reports on concerns

South Auckland pharmacist Selwan Farhan leads a hectic life juggling a busy career and family. He tells Paulette Crowley how he does it all with a smile

I WOULD LIKE to acknowledge a pharmacist who has provided a wonderful service to my family, Michael Mishriki, of Glenavon Kiwi Chemist in Auckland.

Co-founder of Clinical Advisory Pharmacists Association John Dunlop takes issue with comments made by PSNZ president Rhiannon Braund in the October issue of Pharmacy Today on the upskilling of pharmacists working in general practice

The case of ADHD specialist GP Tony Hanne excited much comment last month, not least from pharmacy owner Ian McMichael who is concerned about the impact of bad prescribing on pharmacists and potential liability, writes Jonathan Chilton-Towle

THE CHILD POVERTY Action Group and the United Community Action Network are jointly petitioning Parliament to get prescription fees removed for all Community Services Card holders.

The English pharmacy sector is begging the NHS to stop stealing community pharmacists to work in general practice after three years of a programme similar to one being proposed here.

FROM THE START of next month, medicine containing pholcodine must be moved off the shelves and into the pharmacist-only section.

Some pharmacists are now switching eligible hospital patients from IV to oral antibiotics after a study found it produced good clinical outcomes and is cost-effective, writes Paulette Crowley