COVID-19

A breakthrough with minority group has been the cherry on top of an extremely successful COVID-19 vaccination programme which has seen Unichem Pakuranga Pharmacy deliver around 30,000 jabs and counting

Link to latest information on the number of adverse events following immunisation (AEFI) reports received for COVID-19 vaccines

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

In the past year and a half, St Lukes Medical Pharmacy has lost most of its patients, prescriptions and retail sales, and has been forced to make six staff redundant as a result of a pop-up community-based testing centre.

Berrys Tararua Pharmacy and Berrys Health Centre overcame lockdown challenges last year to make up to 600 medication deliveries a week for free to their local community. 

During last year's Alert Level 4 lockdown Unichem Grey Lynn Pharmacy owner Sunil Kumar sometimes dreaded picking up the phone and being assailed by requests for flu vaccination.

When news of an Alert Level 4 lockdown broke, Chin Loh, co-owner of Dunedin’s Antidote chain, closed two of his eight pharmacies, Antidote Octagon and Antidote Central, for the duration of the pandemic, to ensure he had the staff to keep the others open in the event of a COVID exposure.

The Pharmacy Council has fielded a flood of applications for its recently announced fourth tranche of relief funding, writes Anna Lee

Pharmacy Today reporter Anna Lee tests the water on retail sales in pharmacy and finds the latest community outbreak of COVID-19 has had a devastating effect on the bottom line

A Wellington pharmacy accountant believes many pharmacy owners will have once again incorrectly claimed the Government’s wage subsidy during the national lockdown.