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Lockdown has forced a COVID vaccination initiative targeting Māori in the Queenstown area to change tack, holding a drive-through instead of hitting the road

Pharmacies around New Zealand are stepping up to protect the wider New Zealand public against COVID-19 as group 4 vaccinations begin

The Southern District’s Covid-19 Vaccination programme is continuing to ramp up, with eight pharmacies across the district among the latest sites to begin offering on-site COVID-19 vaccinations – the first of 37 pharmacies that will be part of the vaccination programme in the district.

Staff at the pharmacy in Countdown Dunedin Central will be offered counselling after witnessing a knife attack that left four people seriously injured yesterday

Like many pharmacies in the country’s tourist spots, Fiordland Pharmacy has suffered a downturn in turnover as a result of international travel restrictions.

Steve Hart tests the temperature in Queenstown where the downturn in overseas traffic due to border closures has had dire consequences for some

Central Dunedin pharmacy owners are braced for the arrival of discount pharmacy chain Bargain Chemist

Kaikoura Pharmacy owner David McKee is “losing the will to cooperate” after a Medsafe pharmacy auditor allegedly ordered the disposal of about 85,000 labels following a routine audit.  

New research has highlighted clinical pharmacist facilitators, as an integral part of general practice, enhance the level of care received by patients in New Zealand and identify thousands of medicine-related problems. Anna Lee reports

When Dunedin-based clinical pharmacists Angela Renall, Melissa Copland and Sonia Cox turned up to work on 19 March, they had no idea that just a few hours later they would be nasally swabbing for COVID-19