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The proportion of COVID-19 vaccinations given by community pharmacies has rocketed ahead of other providers. Pharmacies are also now the second biggest providers of flu jabs. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

MEDSAFE’S CONTROVERSIAL unannounced pharmacy audits are still paused, for now.

An error by Te Whatu Ora in calculating pharmacy payments left 186 pharmacies out of pocket by a combined total of $775,000 and all other pharmacies were overpaid by the same amount.

Graduate pharmacists starting work in rural areas have two weeks left to apply for bonding payments worth nearly $20,000 if they continue to work in those areas for the first three to five years of their career.

Pharmacist vaccinators have been given the green light to offer several childhood immunisations.

Some pharmacist vaccinators are concerned Te Whatu Ora is not doing enough to protect their privacy after a recent data breach.

Canterbury Community Pharmacy Group general manager Aarti Patel has had a long and diverse career. Jonathan Chilton-Towle speaks to her as she retires

Associate health minister David Seymour says the Coalition Government is committed to ensuring Pharmac’s budget “remains and is sustained”

The Australian and New Zealand College of Advanced Pharmacy has welcomed its 1000th member