Public Health

The call to review restrictions on pharmacist vaccinators is getting louder – and not just to enable MMR vaccines to be given in pharmacies

Open outside of normal business hours and on weekends, with no appointments necessary, pharmacies are well placed to boost public uptake of the measles vaccine, many believe. 

Open outside of normal business hours and on weekends, with no appointments necessary, pharmacies are well placed to boost public uptake of the measles vaccine, many believe. 

The call to review restrictions on pharmacist vaccinators is getting louder – and not just to enable MMR vaccines to be given in pharmacies

From next year, all new pharmacists will be trained as vaccinators to curb increasing rates of infectious disease in New Zealand

The Ministry of Health should allow pharmacists to administer MMR vaccines to curtail the effects of the current measles outbreak, National’s Associate Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says.

The Ministry of Health is urgently working through issues preventing community pharmacists from giving MMR vaccinations as the Auckland measles outbreak worsens

A Pharmaceutical Society appeal for the Ministry of Health to permit pharmacists to give measles, mumps and rubella vaccinations has the support of the director of the Immunisation Advisory Centre

Auckland pharmacists are helping University of Auckland researchers find out if a salt reduction mobile phone app and switching to low-sodium table salt can lower blood pressure