COVID-19

The online training module providing vaccinators with all the information they need to deliver the COVID-19 vaccine to the public will be available online imminently, says IMAC director Nikki Turner

Māori should control on any COVID-19 vaccination programme rolled out to Māori communities says NHC chief executive Simon Royal

A senior Pacific doctor says that the enthusiasm the New Zealand government has shown to combat the COVID-19 pandemic is also needed to fight the current diabetes crisis

Māori and Pacific providers will be at the centre of a whānau-centred COVID-19 vaccination programme 

The first pharmacy teams around New Zealand have started to receive their COVID-19 vaccinations. 

A Pharmacy Today online survey reveals some anxiety about the safety of the COVID_19 vaccine and other concerns about logistics and overload from the population-wide rollout 

Neither nosediving enrolment numbers nor COVID-19 could dampen the mood in Auckland and Otago as the pharmacy schools officially welcomed students into the first year of the programme at their annual White Coat Ceremonies

Counties Manukau DHB is considering whether to step in to provide community pharmacy and GP ­services in the event that private businesses collapse

Eight months on from the original announcement of an $18 ­million COVID fund for pharmacy, $431,875 has now been allocated

Pharmacists and pharmacy staff will be offered COVID-19 vaccinations later this month