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Education & Training
Can a pharmacy dispenser or assistant administer travel vaccinations?
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...
Why I love the teaching process
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...
Cardiovascular Disease & Hypertension
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...
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...