Do community pharmacists add value to routine immunization programmes? A review of the evidence from the UK | Zendy

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Do community pharmacists add value to routine immunization programmes? A review of the evidence from the UK

Author(s) -

Sarah M. Perman,

Rachel Kwiatkowska,

Ardiana Gjini

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1741-3850

pISSN - 1741-3842

DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdy021

Subject(s) - pharmacy , vaccination , medicine , government (linguistics) , family medicine , immunization , environmental health , public relations , political science , linguistics , philosophy , antigen , immunology

Community pharmacies are an important setting for the provision of preventative health services in the UK. There has been debate over the value of delivering routine immunizations in a pharmacy setting, though government policy supports this initiative and in 2015 the first nationally commissioned community pharmacy vaccination service was launched for seasonal influenza vaccination. The impact of these vaccination services needs to be evaluated to inform future policy.

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