First pharm vax course
August 26, 2014
THE Pharmacy Guild NSW branch
has confirmed it will offer the first
nationally accredited course for
pharmacist vaccination training (PD
breaking news yesterday).
This follows the extension of the
Queensland Pharmacist Vaccination
Pilot (QPIP) to include a second
influenza season and vaccinations
for measles and whooping cough
for adults (PD 10 Jul).
In NSW, no pharmacy was legally
able to have pharmacist delivered
immunisations, meaning the
training would include a letter
outlining the current position on
pharmacy vaccination and that
a pharmacist must not practice
until formal written notice was
received from the Guild and the
relevant state or territory health
department, the Guild said.
However it was hoped that the
required regulatory changes would
be coming “very soon”, the Guild
said.
The course had been developed
to make pharmacists vaccination
ready where pharmacist
vaccination was already authorised,
such as Queensland and NT, and
in NSW upon the passage of the
required legislation, it said.
The course, NAT10445 -
Conduct Immunisation Services
within a Community Pharmacy
Environment, was accredited
through the Australian Skills and
Quality Authority and added to the
Guild’s scope of registration in May.
It said other registered training
organisations could use the course
via licensing agreements.
The course started in September
in the Orange area and cost $550
for members and $750 for nonmembers,
the Guild said.
The Pharmaceutical Society of
Australia in June told members that
the training used in the QPIP would
“very soon” be available and asked
for expressions of interest.
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