Alberta Health is now delaying plans to reduce the fees pharmacists receive for delivering COVID-19 shots until Jan 1.
Every year, pharmacists in Alberta deliver close to 1 million influenza vaccines. Since the pandemic started, they have administered over 5.6 million COVID-19 shots.
“Pharmacists were very upset by that. We heard late in the day on Sept. 29 that things were going to be cut as of Oct. 1. It was quite a blindside,” said Randy Howden, president of the Alberta Pharmacists’ Association and owner of the Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy and Compounding Centre in Crowfoot In the late September announcement, they were told that was going to drop to $17 on October 1 and down to $13 in April.Preterm baby’s death linked to probiotic, FDA releases warning. Is it safe?“It would’ve caused a huge problem because of the fact that pharmacies had already planned for the next couple of months — our outreach clinics, our long-term care clinics, and all the other things that are going into providing COVID vaccinations this season,” Howden said.
The Alberta Pharmacists’ Association said Alberta Health introduced the changes with no advanced warning and that the elimination of the funding will have an impact on patient care.
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