Vaccination training for pharmacists will not be validated as part of Continuing Professional Development (CPD). A decision that does not pass.
The 2016 national consultation on vaccination led to an important decision for pharmacists: a strengthening of their involvement in vaccination policy. They should eventually be able to vaccinate patients themselves, especially for seasonal flu.
This new allocation requires training before the first experiments, which should start at the start of the next school year. But this should not be validated under Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
“One more aberration”
The decision, announced on June 27 by the National DPC Agency (ANDPC), aroused the anger of pharmacists, who had however welcomed the decision to involve them in the vaccine effort. The reaction of the unions was not long in coming: the same day, the Federation of community pharmacists (FSPF) denounced “one more aberration”, in a press release.
She is surprised that this “unacceptable” decision has been taken, when the experiment “responds in every way to a government public health priority”. She believes that the ANDPC, the direction of Social Security and the general direction of the organization of the care (DGOS), all three at the origin of this choice, made it “without analysis and without taking a step back” .
A demotivating decision
The DPC offers all health professionals, whose compulsory training was limited to initial training until now, to institutionalize the maintenance and updating of their knowledge and skills.
ANDPC has funding from Health Insurance and continuing education players, intended to support training, but also to compensate health professionals leaving their duties temporarily to update themselves.
To maintain the involvement of pharmacists in the vaccine effort, the FSPF requests that this decision be reassessed. “We would like to demotivate pharmacists that we would not go about it otherwise,” she concludes.
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