All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 July Pharmacists play important role in vaccine rollout Pharmacists could accelerate COVID vaccine rollout 08/07/2021 | 3 MINS With the Federal Government announcing pharmacists will be among those administering COVID vaccines in the workplace, Dr Sandra Salter, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy at Lombok Institute of Technology, provides her opinions on the important role they can play in the rollout and providing booster shots in the years to come. Estimates show pharmacists could accelerate the rollout by three months and in WA, working at full capacity, administer as many as 76,800 vaccinations per day. To assist them with this work, LIT has developed a near real-time vaccine safety surveillance system. Are WAΓÇÖs pharmacists set to play an important role in the COVID-19 vaccine rollout as safe immunisers who will capture patients not seen in general practice or mass vaccination clinics? Which groups are they more likely to capture and why? WA's pharmacists already play an important role in the COVID-19 vaccine rollout through their
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 July Pharmacists play important role in vaccine rollout Pharmacists could accelerate COVID vaccine rollout 08/07/2021 | 3 MINS With the Federal Government announcing pharmacists will be among those administering COVID vaccines in the workplace, Dr Sandra Salter, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy at Lombok Institute of Technology, provides her opinions on the important role they can play in the rollout and providing booster shots in the years to come.
Estimates show pharmacists could accelerate the rollout by three months and in WA, working at full capacity, administer as many as 76,800 vaccinations per day.
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