Pharmacy Today

The Pharmacy Guild has serious concerns that Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora has not acted in good faith in community pharmacy contract review talks and last year breached its contractual obligation to properly consider reasonable cost-pressure adjustments for pharmacy funding

Changes to the Medicinal Cannabis Scheme allowing New Zealand companies to export have been called a breakthrough for the sector by industry leaders

The reclassification of Maviret means that specially trained pharmacists and nurses can now prescribe the medicine for patients with hepatitis C – a world first

Two Christchurch pharmacies and one in Blenheim have halted their vaccination services pending a Medsafe investigation

Only one pharmacy in New Zealand has so far been approved to vaccinate infants, one month after the new service was given the green light

Cutting one in four staff at the Ministry of Health will potentially be “punishing” for remaining staff and result in valuable skills being lost, a health systems academic says

The health select committee has recommended that the legislation to return pseudoephedrine to pharmacy shelves proceed to its second reading without changes