vaccination
A vaccination update
As patients increasingly seek out vaccination from pharmacists, the number of vaccine-related calls to PDL has grown PDL has issued a practice alert around vaccination services, including flu and Covid-19 …
‘We needed this like a hole in the head’
Workers at one pharmacy chain mobilised to protect each other, as anti-vaccinators targeted Canberra stores, filming staff and referring to Covid jabs as “death shots” Pharmacies in Charnwood, O’Connor, Civic …
Doctors seek GP pharmacist vaccination approval
Medical groups are seeking to boost access to vaccination services by having GP pharmacists authorised to provide the same vaccines as their community and hospital-based peers Doctors are urging Queensland’s …
Vaccine services problems spotted
As we head towards winter, pharmacists are likely to be vaccinating more… what are inspectors looking for? The Victorian Pharmacy Authority has produced a list of several problems found in …
FIP vaccination focus
FIP has created a new resource to help encourage vaccination by pharmacists The International Pharmaceutical Federation is offering a new resource to help countries self-assess the readiness of their regulations …
SA to lead the way on pharmacy jabs
South Australia has expanded community pharmacist vaccination, to the point where the state will offer more jabs through pharmacists than anywhere else in Australia South Australians will now be able …
Free flu jab drive to roll out in WA
The PSA and doctors have welcomed a WA move to provide access for all to free flu jabs in pharmacy Western Australia’s McGowan Government has announced that it will offer …
‘There must be governance in play’: PSA head
PSA supports the pharmacy scope trials, says its leader, but good governance is key – and in the meantime, there are “burning issues” like vaccination harmonisation to be addressed Speaking …
Pharmacists have proven themselves
Regulations around which vaccinations pharmacist immunisers are authorised to administer should be harmonised across Australia, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) believes Authorising pharmacists to administer new vaccines as part …
Covid jabs likely ‘for the foreseeable future’
The need for Covid boosters won’t go away – but convincing Australians to be vaccinated is a challenge, says one expert Dr Paul Griffin, infectious diseases physician and microbiologist, told …
The week in review
The eyes of the nation turned to the Gold Coast this week, as we heard from Guild representatives, politicians and other pharmacy leaders at APP2023 Thousands of pharmacists from around …
More vaccines streamlined via pharmacy
Tasmanian pharmacists will now be able to administer more vaccines – and GPs are predictably outraged Hot on the heels of the announcement earlier this week that Tasmanian pharmacists would …