The Delivery of a Pharmacy-based Vaccination Service Training Programme covers how to prepare the pharmacist, pharmacy team and premises for the delivery of a vaccination service. You must have a Certificate of Completion for this training programme in order to supply and administer any of the vaccinations. Pharmacists are asked to reflect, self-assess and to evaluate whether they need to refresh their training in this programme, in order to ensure they have the necessary skills and knowledge to safely deliver a vaccination service. The PSI requires that this training programme is repeated if a pharmacist has not vaccinated in the past 12 months (or influenza season).
In advance of administering vaccinations pharmacists should review the PSI training requirements to ensure they have completed all the required training programmes to administer vaccinations. The PSI training requirements can be viewed here: PSI website
The programme is a self-directed fully online training programme which may take approximately two hours to complete.
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On successful completion of this programme pharmacists should be able to competently and safely:
- Prepare the pharmacy setting for a vaccination service
- Perform relevant assessment of patients in order to administer the correct medicine