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  •   Home > News > Health & Safety

    A pharmacist says her industry's under an unsustainable amount of pressure

    A pharmacist says her industry's under an unsustainable amount of pressure


    Open Justice reports a pharmacist failed to consult a man's GP three times on his blood thinner medication before he suffered a fatal brain bleed.

    Meanwhile, a Dunedin woman suffered an overdose of fentanyl after being given six times her prescribed dosage.

    Mangawhai Pharmacy Director Lanny Wong says we need to rethink how pharmacists are funded.

    She says for the last few decades their pay hasn't kept up with their work, so they are having to dispense more medications to keep their business afloat.

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