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Answers to doctors’ transition questions

Posted 20 August 2009 - 9:51am by newsdesk

Labtests

Why has Labtests changed the practitioner codes?

Labtests requires a unique practitioner code for every doctor and midwife to ensure that results are reported back to registered practitioners only. DML practitioner codes are owned by DML, and Labtests has no access to the information held for these codes.

Guild sees Minister’s comments as setting the direction for DHBs

Posted 7 May 2009 - 10:09am by office

Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand (Inc)

The Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand (the ‘Guild’) is welcoming indications from Heath Minister Tony Ryall that he believes that front line community pharmacists are under utilised in the primary care system.

New breaks could mean pharmacies ‘close for lunch’

Posted 31 March 2009 - 7:01am by office

Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand (Inc)

Changes to the Employment Relations Act due to come into force on Wednesday could mean that some pharmacies will have to close their doors for periods during the day, to allow the pharmacist to have a statutory break.

New National Framework for Pharmacist Services

Posted 4 May 2009 - 5:27pm by office

The Pharmaceutical Society of NZ – the Professional Voice of Pharmacy – says pharmacists are well placed to help people manage their medicines properly and support doctors clinically.

Pharmacists help asthma patients use their medication better

Posted 8 May 2009 - 3:19pm by newsdesk

Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand (Inc)

The Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand and the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation are delighted that 16 Guild pharmacies across New Zealand are donating their time to help Asthma Awareness Week by running asthma clinics in their pharmacies.

Pseudoephedrine sales are declining as pharmacists control access

Posted 29 May 2009 - 10:52am by newsdesk

Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand (Inc)

Pharmacists are already responding to the call for greater restrictions on the sale of pseudoephedrine with sales declining by over 20% year on year. This decline is matched by a 41% increase in the sales of the less effective alternative phenylephedrine.

Tamiflu and Influenza

Posted 1 May 2009 - 5:21pm by office

Tamiflu is a prescription medicine, which may be sold by pharmacists from 1 May to 30 September each year in order to treat seasonal influenza in a consumer of at least 12 years of age presenting in a pharmacy with early symptoms of influenza.

Tamiflu available from your pharmacist on Friday, but only if you have symptoms

Posted 30 April 2009 - 10:18am by office

Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand (Inc)

Patients who present with clear signs of influenza will be able to purchase Tamiflu without a prescription from their local community pharmacist from this Friday May 1. However, the Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand is reminding the public that pharmacists can only sell Tamiflu to patients who display symptoms of influenza and cannot sell it to patients who are concerned that they may develop influenza.

Win is spoonful of sugar for pharmacists

Posted 21 October 2009 - 8:45am by newsdesk

Bay of Plenty District Health Board

An innovative pharmacy service working to improve the way medicines are used has won the top prize at this year’s Bay of Plenty District Health Board innovation and research awards.