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Coronavirus: Vaccination

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 133926, tabled on 6 January 2021

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of approving pharmacists to administer the covid-19 vaccine.

Answered on

18 January 2021

No such assessment has been made.

Pharmacists are healthcare professionals who undertake the training specified by NHS England and NHS Improvement as the commissioners of National Health Service pharmaceutical services, can administer the COVID-19 vaccine.