September 2021

Hopefully by the time you get this, the numbers will be falling, the South Island and most of the North Island will be out of Alert Level 4, and we can cautiously hope to see the end coming into view

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

Pharmacy Guild chief executive Andrew Gaudin says the new money in the pharmacy-services contract offered by DHBs is the best deal pharmacy owners can get, given the financial pressures DHBs are under. But not all pharmacy owners agree

Pharmacy Today reporters Anna Lee and Jonathan Chilton-Towle check in with pharmacists across the country to see how they’re faring in the country’s second national lockdown

A Fulbright award takes clinical pharmacist Jo Hikaka to a prestigious university in the US next year, topping off a full 12 months of awards, fellowships and hefty research grants. She finds time to talk to Anna Lee

It is too early to know how many patients have undergone potentially life-saving hepatitis C tests in pharmacies under the new Hepatitis C Pharmacy Test and Treat programme but at least one pharmacist is excited to be involved

Te Wiki o te Reo Māori – Māori Language Week is coming up, from 13 to 19 September – and it’s an excellent opportunity to kickstart your te reo journey or brush up on your pronunciation

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

The day New Zealand learned the country was about to go into Alert Level 4 lockdown was a bittersweet day for pharmacy retail manager Simonne Kainuku