Vaccination

Four Green Cross pharmacies in Wellington and the Hutt Valley are zeroing in on the capital’s frail elderly to ensure they don’t fall in the cracks as COVID-19 vaccinations roll out

Statement from Chief Coroner Judge Deborah Marshall on coronial cases being linked to COVID-19 vaccination

New Zealand’s low vaccination rate can also be credited to late and lazy engagement with primary care providers such as pharmacies, says National’s Health spokesman Dr Shane Reti

Another nationwide lockdown led to a sudden jump in demand for COVID-19 jabs, leaving pharmacy teams around New Zealand scrambling to meet the public’s need to be vaccinated. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

Around 16 per cent of community pharmacies across the country are now involved with the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, but Pharmacy Guild chief executive Andrew Gaudin believes that figure should be much higher

Despite ordering more vaccines than ever before, this season’s flu vaccination rollout has so far been an anticlimax

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

Another nationwide lockdown led to a sudden jump in demand for COVID-19 jabs, leaving pharmacy teams around New Zealand scrambling to meet the public’s need to be vaccinated. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

Despite ordering more vaccines than ever before, this season’s flu vaccination rollout has so far been an anticlimax

The Ministry of Health has launched the Post Vaccine Symptom Check, a mobile-based survey that will help monitor reactions to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in New Zealand, COVID-19 vaccination programme GM Post Event, Dr Tim Hanlon says