Influenza

A gift hamper is up for grabs for the pharmacy which has delivered the highest number of flu vaccines this winter – so get your entries in 

Unichem Tuakau has helped lead the charge on lifting vaccination rates, with the south Waikato pharmacy administering 900 flu vaccines so far – nearly five times last year’s total

Unichem Tuakau has helped lead the charge on lifting vaccination rates, with the south Waikato pharmacy administering 900 flu vaccines so far – nearly five times last year’s total

Figures released by the Ministry of Health show pharmacist vaccinators have massively outdone themselves in the number of vaccines they delivered to New Zealand’s vulnerable populations so far this year. 

Fiona Cassie wanted to know what happens to the thousands of nasal swabs that are sent away for analysis each day. The Southern Community Laboratories experts who answered her questions are clinical microbiologist Arlo Upton, molecular pathology department head Jenny Grant and clinical microbiologist James Ussher 

Following the influenza vaccine “debacle”, GP leaders are calling for exclusive early-season general practice access to the vaccine for at-risk patients 

A newly ordered shipment of flu vaccine tailored for northern hemisphere use will be offered to New Zealanders not at high risk

All community pharmacists and pharmacy staff are now eligible for a funded influenza vaccination due to COVID-19. 

New Zealand is about to temporarily run out of flu vaccine, says associate health minister Julie Anne Genter 

The Pharmaceutical Society and the mental health support collaborative Aotearoa New Zealand Equally Well are calling mental health and addiction patients to be given funded access to the influenza vaccine