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Study finds support for pharmacy tobacco sales
A quarter of pharmacies would strongly consider selling tobacco if pharmacy was its only legal outlet, a new study has found In recent years, New Zealand and international stakeholders have …
Heffernan blasts TGA on codeine
A Guild state president has vowed to continue the fight on codeine and praised the recent NZ downscheduling decision Pharmacy Guild NSW Branch president David Heffernan has queried the validity …
The week in review
With the clock ticking as Australia counts down the last couple of weeks to the codeine upschedule, it’s no surprise that the controversial drug made headlines this week The Society …
Single ingredient codeine downscheduled
Single ingredient codeine medicines are set to be downscheduled across the Tasman New Zealand’s Medicines Classification Committee (MCC) has decided to downschedule single ingredient codeine medicines and upschedule all codeine …
World News Wrapup: 18 January 2018
Kenya bans OTC codeine; Finns outline most worrisome OTCs; Pacific Pharmacists’ Group formalises Kenya: Kenya’s Pharmacy and Poisons Board has banned the sale of all codeine-containing preparations without prescription. According …
Angry ex fined over tell-all email
A pharmacist has been censured and ordered to pay NZ$18,000, after he sent 48 pages of intimate information about a former romantic interest to her classmates While the woman was …
How could a listed Chemist Warehouse look?
Chemist Warehouse could list its management structure, but does it actually need to? asks one industry analyst Earlier this week the Australian Financial Review’s Street Talk column suggested that Chemist …
“The Chemist Warehouse team have built the ‘how to’ model”
Chemist Warehouse is “winning the catalogue game”, according to a piece in B&T The advertising, marketing, media and PR title has run an analysis piece in which it looked at …
World news update: 2 November 2017
Funding cuts mean 190 Lloydspharmacies to close; new NZ health minister questions ownership deregulation; 95% of Cuttack pharmacies allegedly operating without pharmacists England: The parent company of the Lloydspharmacy chain …
CWH trials ‘Siri for business’
Chemist Warehouse is poised to open its first NZ store, as it trials new voice technology to replace scanning New Zealand media is reporting that Chemist Warehouse is to open …
World news wrapup: 19 October 2017
NZ pharmacists oppose codeine upschedule; most Zambian pharmacies operating illegally; Chicago moves to reduce script pressure New Zealand: Radio New Zealand has detailed a debate over the potential upscheduling of …
Chemist Warehouse among Kiwi worries
More than 90% of New Zealand pharmacists are worried about disruption to the industry posed by new entrants and deregulation A recent survey by business advisory and accountancy firm BDO …