Community Pharmacy

COVID-19 lockdowns have made it difficult to get a pioneering hepatitis C pharmacy programme going, but momentum is building. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

Have you received a string of strange bookings for COVID jabs? You’re not alone, writes Anna Lee

Jonathan Chilton-Towle speaks to Moore Markhams Auckland director Jonathan Roberts about the 2021 results of his firm’s annual pharmacy benchmarking survey

Pharmacies are using COVID jabs to offset their retail losses as sales continue to slide, Anna Lee writes

A small town is working together to deliver a vaccination rollout tailor-made to fit their whānau, Anna Lee reports

Two Countdown pharmacies in Wellington will close their doors later this week due to the worsening workforce shortage

Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand president Rhiannon Braund says PSNZ will keep the pharmacist profession informed as details are worked out of the new government plan to use pharmacies for rapid COVID testing from December 15

Community pharmacy staff were taken aback this morning by the announcement that from 15 December they will be providing rapid COVID-19 testing to the public

Community pharmacies have administered nearly 300,000 COVID vaccines in the past month 

Church Street Dispensary in Ōpōtiki, located the Eastern Bay of Plenty, is on a small but mighty mission to play their part in getting the town vaccinated – and they’re using an extra sweet incentive to get punters through the door