Episode 2 - Michael Hammond

After graduating from the University of Auckland, Michael started his career at North Shore Hospital where he worked for a number of years in different clinical areas, before moving to develop and implement a clinical pharmacist facilitator service for the Primary Health Organisation (PHO) in Rotorua. He currently works as part of the COVID-19 Pharmacy Establishment Team leading the roll out of the COVID-19 vaccine in community pharmacy across the three Auckland DHBs. Michael is also the project manager for the quality improvement programme Safety in Practice, as well as a number of other primary care initiatives for Waitemata and Auckland District Health Boards. To support him in this role, he also works casually as a pharmacist at Waitemata’s North Shore Hospital. He is enthusiastic about learning and continuing education; being the first New Zealand pharmacist to complete the Diploma of Leadership and Management through the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia. He is currently also the Vice-President of the National Executive of PSNZ and the Vice-President Auckland branch of PSNZ. Michael is passionate about patient safety and expanding the roles and services for pharmacy.