Can a pharmacy dispenser or assistant administer travel vaccinations?

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] With the recovery of international travel, one of the most common enquiries that we are getting at the moment is asking us if a pharmacy dispenser can administer travel vaccines. At first glance this may seem like quite a simple question, but actually when you explore it further […]
Why I love the teaching processÂ

After a decade of being a travel health nurse and doing a bit of teaching ‘on the side’ alongside it, I made a big decision last year. I decided to switch the balance and concentrate more fully on teaching and make my clinical role the ‘side-project’. These days I tend to spend my days drawing […]
Cardiovascular Disease & Hypertension

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] This post is all about Cardiovascular Disease and Hypertension and has been selected from a lesson from our brand new Hypertension course. In this lesson we’ll be looking at cardiovascular disease, its effects on the population and the health service, and its relationship to hypertension. Cardiovascular Disease Cardiovascular […]
The Covid-19 vaccine and PGDs – Training staff to give it. Immunisation Training Standards: Part IV

Will we have enough staff? Welcome to part IV of our ‘what you need to know about the National Minimum Standards’ series. This week we will look at the governments plans to make changes to the law to allow staff to give Covid-19 vaccine under PGDs. This is to maximise the opportunities to have enough […]
Basic Life Support – getting you and your staff trained during a pandemic.

Getting you and your staff Basic Life Support trained during a pandemic. It is difficult enough at the best of times to keep staff up to date with skills and training so that they can confidently and competently deliver a safe, effective service. But Basic Life Support training during a pandemic – at times when […]
Everest base camp, Diamox, and altitude sickness with special guest James Moore (podcast version)

Euan and Neil share stories of their antics at altitude in Nepal and are delighted to have special guest James Moore (biog below) to answer their questions of altitude sickness and explain how Diamox works. The three of them also discuss vaccine services in the UK during COVID. About James Moore After a successful career […]
Everest base camp, Diamox, and altitude sickness with special guest James Moore (video version)

Euan and Neil share stories of their antics at altitude in Nepal and are delighted to have special guest James Moore (biog below) to answer their questions of altitude sickness and explain how Diamox works. The three of them also discuss vaccine services in the UK during COVID. About James Moore After a successful career […]
Covid Crisis: The Swedish approach (podcast version)

Euan and Neil discuss Sweden’s approach to the Covid crisis, and Neil gets tested for Covid-19.
Viral Load and the risk of Covid

In any outbreak of a new disease, information emerges slowly and rumours are rife. Knowledge and understanding of how to avoid the infection and also what treatments may work against it become apparent slowly over time. Often though it is helpful to look at how similar diseases behave. Covid, like many disease-causing microbes, is a […]
Returning to the NHS for the Covid Crisis (podcast version)

Euan and Neil discuss their recent experiences returning to the NHS for the Covid-19 crisis, and also about some of the other projects they have been working at Health Academy. They also have a country focus on Ecuador and Mauritius. This version is the shorter edited version with no nonsense, just focused chat.