GenPro says new rules allowing pharmacies to vaccinate children could be damaging

Health NZ and Pharmac will offer funded training to pharmacists who want to become authorised vaccinators.

It'll allow pharmacists to administer vaccines to children from six-weeks-old at community pharmacies.

GenPro Chair Angus Chambers says it'll likely just move people from one place to another, and not actually raise rates.

He says there's a whole lot behind immunisation that's beyond just putting the jab in.

Chambers says we've got a whole system of both personal and population health that backs in behind the process.