Pharmacist vaccination gives evidence to back prescribing role

Successful community pharmacy-based vaccination programs should be used as evidence of pharmacists’ competencies to prescribe Schedule 4 medications, Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) National President, Dr Fei Sim, believes. Addressing an International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) webinar last night (Wednesday 18 January), Sim, noted that while state and territory authorities have given their approval for pharmacists