Booster appointments should be honoured despite HSE mix-up, say pharmacies

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Pharmacies to provide boosters to over 40s, despite receiving go-ahead for range of cohorts

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However, appointments had been made for other cohorts and those should be honoured, he said. Pharmacies had made the appointments on the basis of information that they believed to be correct.

It would be a shame to see those people not getting the booster that they had booked, Mr O’Loughlin added. The number of pharmacies providing the booster vaccine was growing, he said. It had risen from 400 three weeks ago to 700 at present. Supplies of the vaccine are strong and the HSE had agreed additional deliveries over the weekend.

The lifting of the 15-minute post-vaccine waiting time requirement will also help speed up the process, he explained and it meant that pharmacies could fit in more vaccinations. He advised that people who had not yet booked an appointment with their pharmacy should telephone, as there were now extra slots available because the 15-minute waiting time had been removed.

Unlike GPs, who could urge patients not to attend at surgeries unless it was urgent, pharmacies could not close their doors to deal only with vaccine clients, he said. In the meantime they had to continue to dispense prescriptions, he noted.

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