Kiwi team wins Guild comp

The now trans-Tasman Pharmacy Guild of Australia National Student Business Plan Competition has been taken out by a team from the University of Auckland. Philip Casabag, Sean Turner, Surbhi Patel and Akhila Puthigae (pictured) formed the fictitious “NaturEd Pharmacy” in the town of Rotorua for their entry. The winners were announced on the weekend during the Pharmacy Connect conference in Sydney, with NaturEd offering a “multilingual EduCare program which revolutionises health literacy

and patient education”. The runners-up were ‘Eye Scream for Eye Screens’ from the UTS Sydney team and ‘One Life Pharmacy’ from a group of students at the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Pharmacy. The principal sponsor of the competition is Blackmores, with EBOS, Gold Cross and PDL also supporting the prizes which include $15,000 in cash for the finalists, a portion of which goes to the participating schools of pharmacy who produce the top three teams each year.

Source: Pharmacy Daily, Monday, 12 September 2016