Pharmacist prescribers drafted in to assist with Covid-19 vaccine rollout at William Harvey Hospital
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Updated: 12:28, 29 December 2020
A group of community pharmacists in Kent have stepped up to aid NHS colleagues with the Covid-19 vaccination programme.
Community pharmacists from all around Kent stepped in at short notice to aid the vaccine rollout at William Harvey Hospital. Photo: Kent LPC
To enable medics to vaccinate on mass, a process known as a patient specific direction (PSD) must be followed which requires a doctor or other independent prescriber (IP) to be present to ensure the jab is administered to a named patient.
In the face of potential delays to the rollout, Kent Local Pharmaceutical Committee (LPC) CEO Shilpa Shah was approached by the Kent and Medway Clinical Commissioning Group to mobilise a group of pharmacist IPs to issue PSDs for the vaccine.