Vaccination

The Pharmacy Guild is awaiting further clarification on the Government’s order to have all pharmacists and other workers in the health sector vaccinated by 1 December 

Director-general of health Ashley Bloomfield believes pharmacy’s performance during the COVID-19 vaccination rollout shows the sector is ready to expand its vaccination role

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

The decision to allow routine vaccinations alongside COVID-19 shots is unlikely to prevent the country’s MMR stock from expiring before it is used

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

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

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.

A breakthrough with minority group has been the cherry on top of an extremely successful COVID-19 vaccination programme which has seen Unichem Pakuranga Pharmacy deliver around 30,000 jabs and counting

Smaller pharmacies are starting to get involved in New Zealand’s COVID-19 vaccination rollout