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We’re very pleased to welcome Sashi Anantham, Head of IQVIA Consumer Insights and Intelligence ANZ, to speak to us after our AGM this year. Read below for more details on our AGM on November 28.

More than 40 CHPNZ members, in person and online, joined a large Medsafe team for a highly productive, positive and informative day in Wellington. Although we face some enormous challenges ahead, all participants were upbeat and keen to meet them head on, and through working collaboratively together.

The Therapeutics Products Bill will have an affect on all New Zealanders in some form. Whether you purchase medicines over the counter, import medicines, or if you have a business that sells natural health products.

The Therapeutics Products Bill will have an affect on all New Zealanders in some form. Whether you purchase medicines over the counter, import medicines, or if you have a business that sells natural health products.

The Consumer Healthcare Products Association of New Zealand (CHPNZ) has welcomed the government’s Winter Preparedness Plan and its initiatives designed to improve access, efficiency and primary health care but also cautions that work is needed on the regulation and supply of medicines so they can be accessed by the thousands of New Zealanders who will most benefit from the Plan.

Staff remain almost twice as long in pharmaceutical companies that offer internal mobility than those that do not, Australia’s ‘Pharma in Focus’ reports.

Staff remain almost twice as long in pharmaceutical companies that offer internal mobility than those that do not, Australia’s ‘Pharma in Focus’ reports.

With waiting times and costs to see a GP increasing, specialist GP Cathy Stephenson suggests pharmacies might be able to fill some of the healthcare gaps for rangatahi.

A project with a broad view of healthcare – including education, housing and getting food on the table – has been revealed in a story in NZ Doctor magazine. Auckland’s South Seas Healthcare Clinic says it aims to bridge the gap between the Pasifika community and healthcare by offering a “one stop shop” for all aspects of care.

The Overseas Investment Office has revealed that Nestlé New Zealand has paid $375 million to purchase Auckland supplement firm The Better Health Company.

According to the National Business Review, Nestlé has been making a number of purchases this year of businesses centred on health and wellness but this was its first in this region- and it is not expected to be the last.