Vaccination

Māori and Pacific providers will be at the centre of a whānau-centred COVID-19 vaccination programme 

The first pharmacy teams around New Zealand have started to receive their COVID-19 vaccinations. 

A Pharmacy Today online survey reveals some anxiety about the safety of the COVID_19 vaccine and other concerns about logistics and overload from the population-wide rollout 

Pharmacists and pharmacy staff will be offered COVID-19 vaccinations later this month

New Zealand’s 2021 flu vaccination programme will “definitely” start on 14 April says Immunisation Advisory Centre national influenza coordinator Barbara McArdle

General practices are learning how best to answer their patients’ questions on the “liquid gold” that is COVID-19 vaccine 

The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has been provisionally approved by Medsafe, with certain conditions placed on the company

Counties Manukau DHB, Papatoetoe’s ProHealth Pharmacy and a south Auckland high school jumped in at the last minute to vaccinate 16 school leavers against measles, mumps and rubella just before the end of term last year

Community pharmacy staff will likely be prioritised to receive early vaccinations when stocks of Pfizer’s new COVID-19 vaccine enter the country soon