The national mumps outbreak is continuing with 275 confirmed and probable cases so far this year (65% in Waitemata and Counties Manakau, 65% aged 10 -29 years, 49% Pacific ethnicity and 17% Maori). In the South Island there have been 16 cases including 6 since the start of July (Neslon Marlborough 3, Canterbury 2 and Southern 1).

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Greetings to All, We trust that everyone is well and recovering from school holidays. This newsletter is to provide you with a brief overview of our activities at CCPG for the last quarter (April to June). Click Here

Members of CCPG, Marwan Dikhil - Eastern Pharmacy Aranui, Robyn Thew - Burwood Pharmacy and Robyn Harris - The Pharmacy @ Opawa supported CCPG in manning the stand at the CRS under 5's & Parents Expo! held in Aranui on 30th June 2017. We received positive feedback from visitors to the Exp. Here is some feedback from our members and if you would like to support/attend future expo's please get in touch! Thanks Marwan, Robyn & her daughter and Robyn Harris.

Pharmacies do not get paid for collecting used medicines and sharps but there is no cost for the disposal of them as the CDHB are now funding San-i-pak to collect them from pharmacies. Pharmacies can choose to participate in this initiative or not. For general medicines the disposal of one yellow bag full each month has been in place for some time. However there is now no limit (as long as it is reasonable) on how many yellow bags can be collected from San-i-pak In regard to th...