In a development that is set to further push the case of pharmacists to administer vaccinations, the pharmacy faculty at Charles Sturt University (CSU) has started training its students to immunise. Fourth year pharmacy students finishing at the end of this year will be qualified in administering vaccinations after the university introduced the component at the start of the current semester.
Last week, the Tasmanian government confirmed that a swine flu vaccination program would be rolled out to additional pharmacies this month after a trial offering free swine flu jabs in the state's pharmacies proved to be very popular.”We are preparing pharmacists for vaccination on the basis that we are convinced that it will come,” SCU pharmacy professor Patrick Ball told Pharmacy News.
“It is going to come to a head in the near future. So it is to some extend pre-empting that.”