Otago school of pharmacy’s drive to train students to vaccinate stymied

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Otago school of pharmacy’s drive to train students to vaccinate stymied

Ruth
Nicola
Brown
Acting dean Sarah Hook says efforts to qualify Otago pharmacy students as vaccinators have so far been stymied by a “bureaucratic nightmare”
Acting dean Sarah Hook says efforts to qualify Otago pharmacy students as vaccinators have so far been stymied by a “bureaucratic nightmare”

The University of Otago School of Pharmacy has hit a wall after years of pushing to get its vaccinator-training programme for pharmacy students authorised by the Ministry of Health.

I’ve had many, many conversations with people at the ministry. They think it would be a great idea for our course to be authorised, but they don’t kno