Child Health

Nappy rash can be a cause of concern for parents and create discomfort for babies. Dunedin pharmacist Darshana Kanjee, looks at how pharmacy teams can help

Non-practising pharmacist Sarah Mooney explores how local pharmacies can play a pivotal role in supporting the health and wellbeing of students as they embark on a new school year

Practices may rethink whether they can afford to carry on with immunisation monitoring and recalls if parents opt to go to community pharmacies for infant vaccinations, says an RNZCGP submission

New Zealand’s fifth wave of COVID-19 may have peaked, just as the risk of a measles outbreak is on the rise

The Government should invest in stretched general practices to boost childhood immunisation rates before funding pharmacies to immunise infants, argues General Practice Owners Association chair Angus Chambers

Vulnerable babies will be put at risk by an “extremely disappointing” decision to not fund a drug preventing hospitalisation with RSV, says a paediatrician.

Smoking, vaping, junk food and alcohol were up for scrutiny at Health Coalition Aotearoa’s political panel on prevention, held last month in Wellington.

As the need for COVID-19 vaccinations dissipates, a raft of other vaccines is now on the table with more to come for pharmacy. But as many board the vaccine train to expand clinical services – and keep the money rolling in – questions are raised about whether the vaccine free-for-all is the answer to revenue woes. Paulette Crowley and Jonathan Chilton-Towle report

I WOULD LIKE to acknowledge a pharmacist who has provided a wonderful service to my family, Michael Mishriki, of Glenavon Kiwi Chemist in Auckland

Pharmacists are quietly confident they will be up to the task of offering childhood vaccinations should a proposal before the Medicines Classification Committee to expand access to vaccines get the green light