Vaccines

The Pharmacy Council has the “explicit expectation” that all pharmacists will personally receive the COVID-19 vaccination, unless medically contraindicated

New Zealand's medicines regulator, Medsafe has requested additional information from Janssen, ahead of making a decision about whether to approve the pharmaceutical company’s COVID-19 vaccine

Three serious allergic reactions, including one case of anaphylaxis, have been reported following the COVID-19 vaccine but they were managed well by vaccinators, says director-general of health Ashley Bloomfield

The online training module providing vaccinators with all the information they need to deliver the COVID-19 vaccine to the public will be available online imminently, says IMAC director Nikki Turner

The online training module providing vaccinators with all the information they need to deliver the COVID-19 vaccine to the public will be available online imminently, says IMAC director Nikki Turner

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

To ensure efficiency in the COVID-19 vaccine delivery district health boards are using different approaches, appropriate to their specific regional delivery models, to ensure as much of the available vaccine as possible is used

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

Community pharmacists and GPs will likely be prioritised to receive early vaccinations when stocks of Pfizer’s new COVID-19 vaccine enter the country early next year

The UK might be preparing to start mass COVID-19 vaccinations next week, but New Zealanders will not get their shot until March 2021 at the earliest