Page: Vaccination

La grippe saisonnière représente une charge de morbidité importante pour le système de santé et un risque pour plusieurs groupes de population, notamment les personnes âgées, les personnes souffrant d’affections sous-jacentes, les femmes enceintes et d’autres.
La menace d’une deuxième épidémie de COVID-19 est très réelle, et le risque que les deux virus entraînent une morbidité et une mortalité combinées ne peut être négligé.

In this episode – “Vaccination: From Specialist Practice to Everyday Practice” – is an interview format that focuses on the FIP Development Goal 4: Advanced & Specialist Development from the perspective of vaccination by a pharmacist. We discuss the process required to take vaccination by pharmacists from a specialized field that few pharmacists deliver in some jurisdictions, to a standard part of pharmacists’ care in all settings and locations.

In this episode, “Empowering Pharmacists to Deliver Vaccination in all Settings” – is an interview format that focuses on the FIP Development Goal 7: Advanced Integrated Services from the perspective of vaccination by pharmacist. We discuss change management principles in the context of integrating advanced practice services into every day practice, ensuring that vaccination by pharmacists in all settings and jurisdictions is consistent with best evidence and practice guidelines. Where a pharmacist is present in all settings, vaccinations can be provided. Ensuring collaborative work and shared documentation with all healthcare professionals to ensure it is an integrated service.

In this episode, “Removing Policy Barriers to Pharmacist Vaccination” – is an interview format that focuses on the FIP Development Goal 13: Policy Development from the perspective of vaccination by a pharmacist. We discuss the process of policy development, identification of barriers, and engagement with stakeholders to ensure that pharmacist vaccination is accessible to all people in all settings where pharmacists work.

In this episode – “Pharmacist Vaccinators and Communicable Disease Management” – is an interview format that focuses on the FIP Development Goal 16: communicable and Vector Diseases from the perspective of vaccination by a pharmacist. The role of vaccination in the prevention and suppression of communicable and vector-borne disease, and the promise of addressing these diseases that pharmacists vaccinators will deliver.

In this episode – “Pharmacist Vaccinators and Antimicrobial Stewardship” – is an interview format that focuses on the FIP Development Goal 17: Antimicrobial Stewardship from the perspective of vaccination by a pharmacist. The role of vaccination in antimicrobial stewardship, preserving antimicrobial effectiveness, preventing antimicrobial resistance, and the promise of addressing these issues that pharmacists vaccinators will deliver.

In this episode – “Pharmacist Vaccinators as a way to improve access to medicines” – is an interview format that focuses on the FIP Development Goal 18: Access to Medicines and Services from the perspective of vaccination by a pharmacist. The role of pharmacists in ensuring that vaccinations are widely and easily accessible by all people in all areas of the world, and the expertise of pharmacists in delivering the logistics and services needed to increase vaccination rates.

In this episode – “Setting Transformation Goals for Vaccination Globally” – is a roundtable discussion that focuses on the role of the FIP Development Goals in the transformation of pharmacist vaccination globally and regionally. The discussion will focus on the development of transformative goals and how these goals will be used to deliver pharmacist vaccinators in all jurisdictions, resulting in increased vaccination rates worldwide

This event will discuss how the quality, efficacy and safety of vaccines are built into their development and manufacturing processes, including the clinical research they undergo and the strict regulatory assessment that precedes their marketing authorization. In addition, speakers will discuss how to make such processes understood and well-known by the public in a transparent and clear manner, in order to build confidence in vaccines and address the grave problem of vaccine hesitancy and anti-vaccines movements, i.e., the refusal to get vaccinated despite the availability of vaccines.

In the first of six regions we dissect, event 3.1 focuses on the regional needs and drivers for transforming vaccination in Europe. This involves discussing the progress made in European countries with regards to pharmacist vaccination, the quality and universal access to vaccinations. We also discuss barriers and challenges and regional needs for future transformation. FIP members, stakeholders and partners from the European region join us for a true regional perspective.