Why join the Guild?
Membership is designed to deliver measurable value to your business. For an all-inclusive fee, member pharmacies and their staff have access to our full suite of member benefits. Savings from member support, advice, resources and discounts more than cover the cost of Guild membership fees. Ready to join? Click here
Member benefits
Access expert advice and support
Practice support and advice
We have two full-time staff pharmacists on hand to provide support and answer queries on day-to-day dispensing processes and claiming, through to interpreting legislation and navigating audits.
Expert HR and legal advice
Members receive personalised advice from external experts via our HR advice line and legal advice line. Accessing early advice means you don’t make costly mistakes.
Navigate regulations and ensure compliance
Audit and pharmacy practice resources
Navigate regulations and deliver optimal patient care with our extensive audit and practice guides, templates, checklists, and quality improvement tools.
Business tools and workplace requirements
Ensure compliance with our range of templates and guidance covering staffing, Children’s Act, Privacy Act and Health and Safety at Work Act.
Save money
Online clinical tools
Membership includes access to Micromedex,
Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Medicines
Guide and the Pharmacy Services Standard, all
required for audit.
Continuing professional development
Pharmacy owners receive free access to hundreds of CPD modules, covering clinical
and business topics, through the Australasian
College of Pharmacy.
Exclusive discounts
Members benefit from negotiated arrangements
with reputable service partners, including Markhams, OneMusic, reCare and Red Cross.
Stay up-to-date
Publications that keep you ahead
Our weekly member e-newsletter and hardcopy monthly and bi-monthly magazines provide essential sector news, policy updates, and clinical information, all curated and summarised to save you hours of research.
Strengthen the future of community pharmacy
Advocacy with tangible results
Strengthen the sectors’ collective voice and ensure advocacy that has secured millions in funding and service expansion continues.
The Guild represents members in all key funding discussions, including annual Integrated Community Pharmacy Services Agreement (ICPSA) reviews. The Guild is equipped with the funds, capacity, expertise and relationships to do this effectively on your behalf.
The Guild lobbies politicians and decision-makers to improve the position of community pharmacy within the health sector and advocates for community pharmacy with Te Whatu Ora, health officials and other key stakeholders. This includes regular submissions and meetings with officials on policy developments that impact community pharmacy.
Members have access to personalised audit advice, an 0800 HR advice line, an 0800 legal advice line, and practice support helpdesks.
- Online access to Micromedex, the Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Medicines Guide and the Health and disability services pharmacy services Standard.
- Guild member app with automatic notification of legislation changes.
- Audit checklists and guides.
- Quality improvement tools.
Guild members have access to a huge range of tools and resources to help them run their businesses more effectively, including audit support, member discounts, and business, practice, and HR tools.
- Retail manual
- Health and Safety at Work Act resources
- Privacy Act resources
- Guidance on crime prevention, natural disasters, advertising, business planning, and more.
- Employment agreement templates
- Children’s Act resources
- Job descriptions
- Annual remuneration survey
- Guidance on redundancy, parental leave, performance management,
- and more
- Vaccination SOPs
- ICPSA and LTC resources
- ECP consultation record
- Guidance on recalls, patient data, veterinary prescriptions, drug seekers, PSOs, and more.
Exclusive member discounts on banking, first aid training, legal advice, accounting services, retail music licences, and pain training
Cost of membership
Membership fees can be paid monthly or quarterly. The below table lists monthly fees excluding GST.
Very small pharmacies will be considered for a fee reduction on a case-by-case basis. Contact the membership team to discuss this option at membership@pgnz.org.nz or on 04 802 8200.
Guild rules state that all pharmacies with joint ownership must be members of the Guild for any of the pharmacies to receive our services.
1 pharmacy
$ 305.00
/ month
2-5 pharmacies
$ 292.50
First pharmacy/ month
- $142.50 per additional pharmacy, per month
6+ pharmacies
$ 280.00
First pharmacy/ month
- $130.00 per additional pharmacy, per month