Pharmacy

The Pharmacy Defence Association is criticising the Pharmacy Council for its handling of the disciplinary action resulting from the case of prescription fraud that caught up multiple pharmacists in 2017.

Heather Came is this year’s Kāhui Hauora Tūmatanui Public Health Champion

Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand president Rhiannon Braund says PSNZ will keep the pharmacist profession informed as details are worked out of the new government plan to use pharmacies for rapid COVID testing from 15 December

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) has appointed Paul Goulter as chief executive starting 21 February 2022

The Ministry of Health added almost 200 more medicines to the schedule from which pharmacist prescribers can prescribe, taking the total to 1713. A media release from the ministry says New Zealand has 37 pharmacist prescribers, largely based in collaborative, multidisciplinary health teams

Health Navigator NZ’s  new collection of free local resources for COVID-19-positive people are aimed at simplifying difficult concepts and supporting those isolating at home 

Demands to fund the emergency contraceptive pill in pharmacies skirt around the issue that the most effective forms of contraception are still out of reach, says Auckland specialist GP Orna McGinn  

This year's influenza vaccination campaign has been declared a success, although the Ministry of Health’s prediction of yet another record-breaking flu season has failed to eventuate

A new survey has prompted an avalanche of opinions from the pharmacy sector on the COVID jab, Anna Lee reports

Pharmacist prescribers can now prescribe nearly 200 more medicines enabling New Zealanders to receive better access to medicines