Hawke's Bay

Unichem UFS Pharmacy Napier was one of the last remaining pharmacies owned by a friendly society and earlier this year, it closed after nearly 130 years

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

Pharmacies around New Zealand are stepping up to protect the wider New Zealand public against COVID-19 as group 4 vaccinations begin

Mixed messages about pharmacy involvement in the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine is frustrating Pharmaceutical Society president Professor Rhiannon Braund, who reports widespread confusion among pharmacists

Marewa Pharmacy staff are feeling lucky today after narrowly avoiding serious flooding during torrential rain in Napier yesterday

Systemic problems at Hawke’s Bay DHB meant a prisoner in its care missed out on being given his regular blood pressure and antidepressant medications, the Health and Disability Commissioner has found

Unichem Russell Street Pharmacy was recently presented with the Supreme Award at the Hawke's Bay Health Awards for its respiratory “warrant of fitness” initiative. 

Hawke’s Bay DHB is helping its general practice pharmacists to become prescribers, after 10 years of funding their primary care roles

A Hawke’s Bay pharmacy inviting families of asthmatic Māori and Pasifika children to take part in an “warrant of fitness” check led to 80 per cent of children improving their asthma control

Chief coroner Deborah Marshall has paid tribute to the contribution and service of Hastings based Coroner Christopher Devonport who died at Hawke’s Bay Hospital on 23 January after an accident at his home