The Health Information Standards Office (HISO) this week released the New Zealand Medicines Terminology Recommendation Report.

19 August 2009 - Recent comments from the Pharmacy Guild and related industries that the vast majority of pure methamphetamine or P made in New Zealand is from imported pseudoephedrine is not backed up by Police seizures of the drug according to MethCon Group director Mike Sabin.

3 June 2009 - The Pharmacy Guild welcomes the re-election of Guild President, Ian Johnson, and election of Vice President, Warren Leonard.

These positions take effect after the Guild's Annual General Meeting which will be held on 23 June in Rotorua.

29 May 2009 - Reduced funding for border surveillance in the Budget will only make it easier for people to smuggle ingredients to manufacture P into the country, says Labour's Biosecurity spokesperson Damien O'Connor.

28 May 2009 - 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.

Green Party Health and Wellbeing Spokesperson, Kevin Hague, said today that it was "unfair and dangerous" for people buying Tamiflu directly from pharmacists to be faced with a bill of over $70, which is simply unaffordable for some families.

By Kevin Norquay of NZPA

Wellington, April 30 NZPA - Allowing Tamiflu to be sold direct to people who present at a pharmacy with flu symptoms undermines efforts to contain the illness, pharmacists say.

Wellington, April 29 NZPA - Tamiflu, the medicine being given to people showing symptoms of influenza A and swine flu, will be available public without a prescription from Friday.

Guild Insurance celebrated the launch of its New Zealand operations on Monday 16 March, with a cocktail function at the Wellesley Club Lounge. Ian Johnson, President of the Pharmacy Guild, presented a commemorative plaque to Brian Benger, Managing Director of Guild, to mark the occasion.

30 October 2008 - Pharmacies can now submit subsidy claims electronically to the Ministry of Health instead of sending them on floppy disks fortnightly.