Community Pharmacy

Community pharmacy is yet again proving its worth in the pandemic response, delivering a delivering a sizeable chunk of the jab tally so far 

Director-general of health Ashley Bloomfield believes pharmacy’s performance during the COVID-19 vaccination rollout shows the sector is ready to expand its vaccination role

Te Awamutu pharmacist Gemma Perry says this year’s Alert Level 4 lockdown feels different to its predecessors: with the highly contagious Delta variant now in the mix, the light at the end of the tunnel “feels a bit further away”

Eighteen months after New Zealand's first nationwide Alert Level 4 lockdown, Pharmacy Today reporters Jonathan Chilton-Towle and Anna Lee revisited, in a socially distanced way, pharmacy staff they interviewed last year to see how a year and a half has changed the pandemic landscape

Sixteen pharmacies across the country have now permanently closed this year, according to the Ministry of Health, and most of these are independents or Green Cross-branded pharmacies

Hawke’s Bay DHB has launched a new incentive programme with the aim of encouraging more Māori and Pacific peoples to get vaccinated against COVID-19 before Christmas

Pharmaceutical Society president Rhiannon Braund describes as “laughable” the fact that two independent reviews into pharmacy funding do not back an increase in funding as a solution to the sector’s woes

Pharmaceutical Society president Rhiannon Braund describes as “laughable” the fact that two independent reviews into pharmacy funding do not back an increase in funding as a solution to the sector’s woes

Sixteen pharmacies across the country have now permanently closed this year, according to the Ministry of Health, and most of these are independents or Green Cross-branded pharmacies

Smaller pharmacies are starting to get involved in New Zealand’s COVID-19 vaccination rollout