Vaccination

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The proportion of COVID-19 vaccinations given by community pharmacies has rocketed ahead of other providers. Pharmacies are also now the second biggest providers of flu jabs. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

Pharmacist vaccinators have been given the green light to offer several childhood immunisations.

THERE IS DISAPPOINTMENT fewer children and Māori and Pacific people will qualify for free flu vaccinations this winter.

GP leaders are frustrated and “extraordinarily” disappointed at yesterday’s decision to allow pharmacist vaccinators to deliver six-week infant vaccinations

Pharmacist vaccinators have been given the green light to offer several childhood immunisations

There is disappointment fewer children and Māori and Pacific people will qualify for free flu vaccinations this winter

PHARMAC HAS DELAYED making a decision on its proposal to remove the restriction on pharmacist vaccinators giving childhood vaccines. 

Practices may rethink whether they can afford to carry on with immunisation monitoring and recalls if parents opt to go to community pharmacies for infant vaccinations, says an RNZCGP submission

Pharmac has delayed making a decision on its proposal to remove the restriction on pharmacist vaccinators giving childhood vaccines