COVID-19

GPs, pharmacists and nurses in Canterbury are to be funded to phone back identified vaccine-hesitant people, to answer their clinical questions

New Zealand’s first-ever ‘Vaxathon’ will take place this weekend on ‘Super Saturday’ (16 October) – a national day of action that calls on every remaining eligible New Zealander to get their shot

If vaccination rates remain below 90 per cent, health experts fear the worst is yet to come for South Auckland, reports Justin Latif

The Government has decided to make COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for large parts of the health and education workforces, including GPs and pharmacists

The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners supports the call for mandatory vaccinations for those in the health and disability sector as announced this afternoon by COVID-19 Minister Chris Hipkins

Around half of recent excess deaths in England have been directly from COVID

Eighteen months after New Zealand's first nationwide Alert Level 4 lockdown, Pharmacy Today reporters Jonathan Chilton-Towle and Anna Lee revisited, in a socially distanced way, pharmacy staff they interviewed last year to see how a year and a half has changed the pandemic landscape

Eighteen months after New Zealand's first nationwide Alert Level 4 lockdown, Pharmacy Today reporters Jonathan Chilton-Towle and Anna Lee revisited, in a socially distanced way, pharmacy staff they interviewed last year to see how a year and a half has changed the pandemic landscape

Hawke’s Bay DHB has launched a new incentive programme with the aim of encouraging more Māori and Pacific peoples to get vaccinated against COVID-19 before Christmas

With vaccination rates still too low in Auckland and around Aotearoa New Zealand, and with unexpected cases still showing up, there are few options ahead of today’s government decision on alert levels.