Pharmacists’ push to immunise children fought by doctors

Original article by Amy Corderoy
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: 13 : 5-Dec-14

Saxon Smith, president of the Australian Medical Association’s New South Wales (NSW) branch, says it will lobby fiercely against any move to allow pharmacists to carry out more vaccinations. The NSW branch director of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, Steven Drew, had claimed that such a proposal had been given in-principle support by State Health Minister Jillian Skinner. However the Government and pharmacists remain at loggerheads over the extent of qualifications needed in order to offer the service. It has been successfully trialled in Queensland

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AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (NSW) LIMITED, NEW SOUTH WALES. MINISTRY OF HEALTH, PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA (NEW SOUTH WALES BRANCH) LIMITED

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