Nicole Rickman Media release: Guild supports increasing community pharmacists’ role and access to services The Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand (the Guild) supports increasing community pharmacists’ role and the funded services community pharmacies can provide, as announced today as part of ACT’s Pharmacy Fir... Advocacy Extended Pharmacy Services Funding Media release Aug 5, 2026
Nicole Rickman Media release: Guild welcomes Labour’s free prescriptions policy announcement The Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand (the Guild) welcomes today’s announcement by the Labour Party of their free prescriptions policy, which would see the $5 prescription charge removed for all New Zeala... Advocacy Co-payment Media release Jun 17, 2026
Nicole Rickman Media release: Guild welcomes continued expansion of community pharmacy’s role The Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand (the Guild) supports the acknowledgement of the vital role of community pharmacy, with the announcement today that community pharmacists will be funded to directly pr... Advocacy Funding Media release Scope of practice Apr 15, 2026
Nicole Rickman CPLF media release: CPLF working groups begin advancing key community pharmacy priorities The Community Pharmacy Leaders Forum (CPLF) met in early November, following the establishment of two key sub-groups focused on developing a comprehensive workforce plan and a roadmap to full scope of... CPLF Media release Scope of practice Workforce Dec 14, 2025
Nicole Rickman Media release: Guild successfully mitigates 12-month prescription impacts The Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand (the Guild) is delighted that Health New Zealand (HNZ) has now agreed to funding changes to fully mitigate the financial impact of 12-month prescriptions for communit... 12-month prescriptions Funding Media release Nov 12, 2025
Nicole Rickman Media release: Guild celebrates World Pharmacists Day The Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand (the Guild) produced a video of key health sector leaders as a small token of our appreciation of the incredible work pharmacists do every day to support their patien... Media release Workforce Sep 24, 2025
Nicole Rickman Media release: Guild’s work outside of NAAR delivers for community pharmacy The Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand (the Guild) has successfully secured improvements to the next Integrated Community Pharmacy Services Agreement (ICPSA) voluntary variation by working outside the limi... Advocacy Funding Media release NAAR Sep 14, 2025
Nicole Rickman Media release: Guild escalates concerns with HNZ’s 2024 cost pressure uplift The Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand (the Guild) wrote to Health New Zealand (HNZ) last month on behalf of members escalating our significant concerns with HNZ’s approach to the funding of reasonable cos... Advocacy Funding Media release NAAR May 13, 2025
Nicole Rickman CPLF media release: Community pharmacy leaders commit to top priorities The Community Pharmacy Leaders Forum (CPLF) consists of the leaders of national and local community pharmacy organisations and was recently relaunched, with all participating leaders embracing the nee... Media release Scope of practice Workforce Apr 23, 2025
Nicole Rickman Media release: Guild does not support extending CPCT funding The Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand (the Guild) does not support calls made by some interested parties to extend funding for the Comprehensive Primary and Community Care Team (CPCT) initiative. Funding ... Advocacy Funding Media release Workforce Mar 12, 2025