Ontario is planning to allow pharmacists to prescribe flu medication, administer flu shots to babies and administer RSV vaccines, when available, ahead of an expected fall viral surge.
The Ministry of Health is asking for feedback on new draft regulations from the Ontario College of Pharmacists, but with a short two-week comment period as the respiratory virus season looms.
The new rules would see pharmacists able to prescribe Tamiflu — medication to treat influenza — to patients over one year old. Pharmacists have also been able to prescribe Paxlovid to treat COVID-19 since December, and the Ontario Pharmacists Association says there have been more than 174,000 such prescriptions.As well, the regulations would allow pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to administer RSV vaccines once available.
Pharmacists have been able to administer flu shots to people as young as two years old since 2020 — down from the previous cut-off of age five — and the new rules would remove age restrictions so that babies could receive flu shots at pharmacies. "These types of regulations will provide more access, and leveraging the success of the program that pharmacies have been involved in for some time now with the flu shots since 2013, and COVID shots," he said.
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