Ministry of Health

The Ministry of Health should be making more use of pharmacists’ skills to help mental health patients, Pharmaceutical Society president Ian McMichael says

The Ministry of Health should be making more use of pharmacists’ skills to help mental health patients, Pharmaceutical Society president Ian McMichael says

From a pharmacy point of view, we can only stand back and gaze, with jaws dropped, at the lapses in judgement unfolding with the latest measles outbreak. 

From a pharmacy point of view, we can only stand back and gaze, with jaws dropped, at the lapses in judgement unfolding with the latest measles outbreak. 

The Ministry of Health is urgently working through issues preventing community pharmacists from giving MMR vaccinations as the Auckland measles outbreak worsens

The Pharmacy Council has six new members following lengthy appointment delays

The number of influenza vaccines delivered in pharmacies has shot up since 2016 with more than 75,000 distributed to pharmacies so far this year

No one knows who the members of the Pharmacy Council will be in a few months’ time, but a new chair has been elected – at least for now

Vaccinators are asked to limit their influenza shots to only those eligible for publicly funded injections