NZ news
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 …
World news wrapup: 7 September 2017
Sacked for poo delivery; pharmacist killed by grenade in Kenya; UK pharmacy rolls out virtual GP consult Limerick, Ireland: A medicines delivery driver has had his unfair dismissal application knocked …
Pharmacies selling ‘snake oil,’ say Kiwi GPs
Like their Australian counterparts, doctors across the Tasman are taking aim at pharmacy over complementary medicines The New Zealand Medical Association had expressed concern in Pharmacy Today over the Pharmacy …
NZ competitors ‘under-prepared’ for Chemist Warehouse arrival
CWH will be expanding its empire with a new TV show, Auckland store and four stores in North Brisbane Chemist Warehouse’s plans for its Auckland store are now in train, …
World news wrapup: 17 August 2017
Kmart opens first telepharmacy; three more come forward in US pharmacist strip case; GP-pharmacist spat over CMs in New Zealand Niagara Falls, New York: Three more people have made formal …