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Fresh challenges to nurses’ role: Pharmacist vaccinators, more meds on Section 29 list
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Fresh challenges to nurses’ role: Pharmacist vaccinators, more meds on Section 29 list
Tuesday 20 February 2024, 03:37 PM

Childhood vaccinations should remain within the GP/iwi provider settings [Image: CDC on Unsplash]
An expanding Section 29 medication list and the push for pharmacies to do childhood vaccinations further burden an already strained system, writes nurse practitioner Yvonne Little
Our primary healthcare system is being fragmented by certain groups, and this needs to stop
Primary healthcare is under the pump still. Possibly
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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