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Flu vaccinations and the tricky issue of consent – where do pharmacy professionals stand?
As the flu season ramps up, pharmacy professionals shouldn’t become blasé to the fact that obtaining written patient consent is no longer a requirement, advises Thorrun Govind
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Checked your Covid-19 Collaboration Agreement?
With the roll out of the Covid-19 vaccination programme by general practice starting next week, practices need to agree the terms on which they will collaborate to deliver the programme in accordance with the vaccination enhanced service specification
Covid-19 Vaccine Deployment and the importance of Consent
With several potential vaccines for COVID-19 in development, the positive news concerning those in development has been welcome following the second national lockdown.
Supply and demand in the time of Covid
With a busy flu vaccination season, surgeries have had to juggle supplies with unprecedented demand - In ordinary circumstances surgeries, without a wholesale dealers license, are not permitted to share vaccines amongst themselves. Though in the past the MHRA has issued an exemption allowing this
Legal view: What are the 4 types of age discrimination in pharmacies?
Pharmacy managers must be mindful of the four types of age discrimination – harassment, victimisation and direct and indirect discrimination – say Thorrun Govind and Paul Spencer
The life and death implications of a coroner’s call to the pharmacy
How pharmacists should handle a coroner’s request for information about a death, revealed by Thorrun Govind and James Down.