Vaccination

Researchers point to lower COVID-19 vaccination rates for those with mental health and addiction problems, but pharmacy has helped reduce the gap. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

Pharmacies around New Zealand are ready to go, ahead of tomorrow’s start to the 2022 influenza vaccination campaign

After hours access to Covid-19 vaccinations has fallen dramatically, despite a Government campaign to increase rates for booster and paediatric doses

It is impossible to say how severe the coming influenza season will be, but it is better to be safe than sorry and vaccinate as many people as possible, says Immunisation Advisory Centre director Nikki Turner

Pharmacist advocates of the MMR vaccination catch-up campaign say it is a shame that about 320,000 doses of the vaccine will be consigned to the dustbin after expiring before they were used

Community pharmacists are delivering the most booster shots of any vaccinators, reports Paulette Crowley

Pharmacist advocates of the MMR vaccination catch-up campaign say it is a shame that about 320,000 doses of the vaccine will be consigned to the dustbin after expiring before they were used

A Picton pharmacy has become a closed-door operation as the Omicron virus spreads, and to protect its staff from abusive customers who refuse to wear masks

Picton pharmacies are considering becoming closed-door operations as they face a barrage of abuse from anti-mandate protesters

Counties Manukau DHB is setting up a $1 million fund for healthcare providers rolling out innovative childhood immunisation programmes to the region’s Māori and Pacific communities