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Pharmacy Today is the leading pharmacy publication in New Zealand Pharmacy Today is a monthly newspaper, first published in 1988.

The paper provides pharmacists, technicians, retail staff, health officials, politicians, and many others in the health sector with the need-to-know pharmacy updates. Pharmacy Today is published by The Health Media, which also publishes medical newspaper New Zealand Doctor.

10/10/2025

Woolworths Pharmacy and Green Gross Health say they have legal advice that pharmacies have the right to say no to dispensing 12-month scripts, but Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora disagrees.
https://www.pharmacytoday.co.nz/article/news/legal-advice-pharmacy-groups-claim-contract-allows-pharmacies-refuse-dispense-12-month

10/10/2025

Moving to 12-month prescriptions is ultimately about saving money for patients, says health minister Simeon Brown, dismissing concerns it will reduce general practice and pharmacy incomes.
https://www.pharmacytoday.co.nz/article/news/move-12-month-scripts-about-patients-not-prescribers-says-minister

09/10/2025

Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora claims it has been transparent about the revenue impacts on community pharmacies from the upcoming move to 12-month scripts https://www.pharmacytoday.co.nz/article/news/te-whatu-ora-says-it-gave-naar-reps-12-month-script-revenue-impact-information

08/10/2025

The revelation of a Ministry of Health document from November last year that forecast the shift to 12-month prescriptions could result in a revenue loss of up to $42 million for community pharmacies has shaken up pharmacy contract talks.
https://www.pharmacytoday.co.nz/article/news/bombshell-12-month-script-impact-statement-rocks-contract-talks

08/10/2025

The country’s first qualified pharmacist vaccinator and owner of Pharmacy 547 and Anglesea Pharmacy in Hamilton, Ian McMichael, together with his 13-year-old son Lachlan, are just back from eight days doing an Outward Bound course in Queen Charlotte Sounds.
https://www.pharmacytoday.co.nz/article/news/pharmacy-pioneer-living-life-full-after-cancer-diagnosis

06/10/2025

East Auckland’s Unichem Pakuranga Pharmacy was named Green Cross Health’s Pharmacy of the Year Supreme Winner during the company’s recent conference on Australia’s Gold Coast on 11 and 12 September.
https://www.pharmacytoday.co.nz/article/news/unichem-pakuranga-named-green-cross-healths-top-pharmacy-2025

05/10/2025

More than 1100 reports were submitted by pharmacists as part of a recent week-long prescription audit, with organisers expecting to release their findings in the next two to three weeks.
https://www.pharmacytoday.co.nz/article/news/bop-and-midland-groups-submit-1100-reports-one-week-prescription-error-audit

03/10/2025

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has declared that a legible prescription is a patient’s “fundamental right” - as it can make a difference between life and death - after Justice Jasgurpreet Singh Puri was left baffled by a medico-legal report so messy that he could not make out a single word, BBC reported.
https://www.pharmacytoday.co.nz/article/news/indian-court-orders-doctors-stop-scribbling-and-fix-their-handwriting

02/10/2025

Pharmacies now have access to melatonin to sell over the counter for the new pharmacy-only indications introduced earlier this year.
https://www.pharmacytoday.co.nz/article/news/melatonin-product-launches-pharmacies-expanded-otc-applications

02/10/2025

Any delay in establishing co-response teams to deal with 111 mental health cases will put lives at risk, says Labour MP and Opposition mental health spokesperson Ingrid Leary.
https://www.pharmacytoday.co.nz/article/news/police-funding-uncertainty-threatens-mental-health-co-response-rollout

01/10/2025

A car jump-start gone awry put a man through the window of a Hawke’s Bay pharmacy over the weekend https://www.pharmacytoday.co.nz/article/news/car-smashes-man-pharmacy-window-jump-start-gone-wrong

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