Plan gives better access to services: Premier
Ontarians can now receive more health services directly from pharmacists, including the publicly funded flu shot and getting their prescriptions renewed.
"By expanding the services pharmacists deliver, like the ability to give the flu shot, we’re giving Ontarians better access to the services they need while strengthening our health care system,” said Premier Dalton McGuinty.
Ontario residents over the age of five can visit participating local pharmacies starting Oct. 22 where specially trained pharmacists will give them the flu shot as part of the province’s universal influenza immunization program.
In addition to giving the flu shot, pharmacists can now also do the following:
- renew or adapt existing prescriptions
- prescribe medication to help people quit smoking
- demonstrate how to use an asthma inhaler or inject insulin
- support patients who have a chronic disease, such as diabetes, monitor their condition.
