A boatload of COVID-19 vaccinators was due on Stewart Island today for the follow-up clinic but the country’s southern-most nurses are relieved many islanders have had at least one dose
COVID-19 vaccination will become business as usual for general practices so using existing booking systems makes good sense to Feilding Health Care’s chief executive Nicky Hart
The flu vaccine should be added to the childhood vaccination schedule to reduce the risk of an even more severe RSV-type flu outbreak next winter, believes paediatrician Cameron Grant
There has been a high uptake by Māori and Pacific of new diabetes drugs under Pharmac’s first ethnicity-based funding criteria – a publicity campaign to encourage more uptake is to start soon
After a very slow start there are now at least over 160 general practices nationwide offering COVID-19 vaccinations to their patients, according to the Healthpoint website
New Zealand graduate nurses are choosing to work in general practice and other primary care settings much earlier in their career and in higher numbers than previously
A Westport general practice was forced to relocate, and staff of two Marlborough clinics were cut off from work, after last month’s extreme flooding in the South Island.
