Jody Hopkinson

A pharmacy owner was banned from attending the NAAR meeting last week, in which an uplift offer of 3 per cent was put on the table

A new roadside drug-testing regime may see law-abiding citizens with legal prescriptions barred from driving for a period of 12 hours, reports Jody Hopkinson

A Kaikōura pharmacy owner has been fighting for a patient on opioid substitution to get his licence returned after he tested positive for THC. Jody Hopkinson reports

Like a real-life Frodo and Gandalf and the Fellowship of the Ring, leaders of New Zealand’s pharmacy representative groups have combined to form a pharmacy sector supergroup, but rather than battling Sauron, the Pharmacy Sector Leaders Forum will be advocating for pharmacists. 

HIV advocacy organisations say HIV self-screening tests being made available for the first time in New Zealand pharmacies will help normalise testing for HIV and make it more accessible

Pharmacists involved in a successful Hawke’s Bay gout treatment programme are extremely disappointed that community liaison officers, the “cornerstones of the programme”, have been made redundant

The whooping cough epidemic took a tragic turn with the death of an infant from the disease over the Christmas period and pharmacies are seeing more demand for whooping cough vaccinations than ever