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PHARMAC confirms widened access for the funded flu vaccine
2 March 2023 - PHARMAC is widening access to the annual funded flu vaccine to tamariki aged 6 months to 12 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Jun 2022
PHARMAC widens flu vaccine access to increase uptake
27 June 2022 - PHARMAC today announced that it is permanently widening access to the annual funded flu vaccine to people ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Apr 2022
Concerns two different flu vaccines create two tier system for 65 and overs
8 April 2022 - PHARMAC is being accused of kicking an own goal on flu jabs, after those aged 65 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Mar 2022
ProCare supports PHARMAC’s proposal to widen access to the flu vaccine
18 March 2022 - Leading health care provider ProCare has today made a submission in support of PHARMAC’s proposal to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Mar 2022
PHARMAC proposes widened access to the flu vaccine for Māori and Pacific peoples for 2022 season
8 March 2022 - PHARMAC is consulting on a proposal to widen access to the funded influenza vaccine to include Māori ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Feb 2022
Flu vaccine price increase
1 March 2022 - PHARMAC has confirmed that the purchase price of the annual influenza vaccine will increase by $2 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Apr 2021
Flu vaccine war: chemists accused of delivering weaker jab
27 April 2021 - A war has broken out between chemists and doctors, who say elderly Australians are being given an ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Feb 2021
Influenza or the COVID vaccines Pfizer or AstraZeneca — which jab should Australians get first?
16 February 2021 - Australians are being advised to wait two weeks between getting the flu jab and COVID-19 vaccine ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 May 2020
Record flu vaccines in 2020 to protect Australians
27 May 2020 - An additional two million flu vaccines will available from this week bringing the total number available in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Apr 2020
Influenza vaccinations for 2020
29 April 2020 - There will be 1.768 million doses of influenza vaccine available this flu season, a 30% (400,000 doses) ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Apr 2020
Record 16.5 million flu vaccines to protect Australians
19 April 2020 - The Australian Government has secured three million additional doses of seasonal influenza vaccines to protect Australians from ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Apr 2020
CSL boosting flu vaccine supply in coronavirus crisis
8 April 2020 - Australia’s biggest health company, CSL, is stepping up supplies of the latest flu vaccine after Health ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Apr 2020
Flu vaccination more important than ever during the month of April
1 April 2020 - With the 2020 flu season not far away, all Australians — and especially those in vulnerable groups ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Mar 2020
People over 65 to be given new flu shot for free
1 April 2020 - Amid the COVID-19 chaos, everyone is being urged to get the flu vaccine early this year. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Jul 2019
Thousands more doses of the flu jab are on the way
7 July 2019 - The Ministry of Health has announced this morning 55,000 more doses of flu vaccine will arrive ...