September 2024

PHARMACISTS SAY the Pharmacy Council’s plan to increase next year’s Annual Practising Certificate fee and disciplinary levy by 10 per cent will only make things harder for their already struggling profession.

NEW ZEALAND’S oldest pharmacy, John Castle Chemist in Wellington, is surviving challenging times.

Medsafe group manager Chris James discusses the role of the Medicines Adverse Reaction Committee

The workforce crisis and related underfunding of the pharmacy sector linger as winter turns to spring, writes editor Jonathan Chilton-Towle

The pharmacy workforce crisis is becoming especially dire for rural pharmacies Paulette Crowley investigates

This month, Unichem Buchanan’s Pharmacy will have been in business for seven decades, reports Jonathan Chilton-Towle

PHARMACY representatives and Te Whatu Ora remain at loggerheads over pharmacy’s annual funding increase after the latest National Annual Agreement Review meeting.

An Auckland pharmacist and academic is concerned the planned roadside drug-testing regime may unfairly inconvenience some drivers appropriately taking prescription medicines. 

THERE WILL SOON BE 52 Chemist Warehouse pharmacies in New Zealand, with the latest store opening in Nelson.

A new $10 million mental health and addictions fund has been criticised as having a set of ‘impossible prerequisites’ that lock community and grassroots organisations out of the application process writes Patrice Dougan