Canterbury

Despite lockdown hiccups this week, Canterbury is now streaking ahead with its COVID vaccination rollout, thanks partly to community pharmacy getting on board

Canterbury DHB is defending its decision to promote Bargain Chemist’s COVID-19 vaccination programme on Facebook, saying the move was to ensure the discount chemist’s capacity did not go to waste

Health minister Andrew Little has not displayed any great concern over the failure of Canterbury DHB’s 2020/21 annual plan to receive his approval 

The pharmacy community is mourning the loss of well-known Christchurch pharmacist Peter Cooke who died of cancer on Sunday

The pharmacy community is mourning the loss of well-known Christchurch pharmacist Peter Cooke who died of cancer on Sunday

In a world first, New Zealand scientists have shown that vitamin C, in high-dose infusions, infiltrates cancer tumours. Fiona Cassie finds out what this means for the unproven, but popular, complementary therapy  

In a world first, New Zealand scientists have shown that vitamin C, in high-dose infusions, infiltrates cancer tumours. Fiona Cassie finds out what this means for the unproven, but popular, complementary therapy  

In Christchurch, a pharmacy and a medical centre have collaborated to turn a former shoe store into possibly the first primary care-run COVID vaccination site in New Zealand

A pharmacy owner has recounted the moment a man strode into his Christchurch store and threatened him with a gun, before making off with about $1500 worth of prescription drugs, $500 cash, and his car

Canterbury community pharmacies have begun using a shared electronic platform to better serve their patients on opioid substitution therapy and save time for clinicians