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Speaker 1: Three sixteen with Katie Wolf thanks to Joyce Main, Darwin

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Speaker 1: homes On and Stuart Highway.

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Speaker 2: Berrima.

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Speaker 1: Well, we have been talking throughout the morning about the

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Speaker 1: vaccine rollout and the vaccine rollout heading into pharmacy so

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Speaker 1: that we can hopefully pop into some locations and have

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Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen vaccine in a pharmacy. But to find

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Speaker 1: out a little bit more about the situation is Pharmacy

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Speaker 1: Guild NTI Branch Director Judith Oliver. Good morning to you, Judith.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time this morning. Judith,

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Speaker 1: tell us a little bit more about how you understand

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Speaker 1: this rollout is going to happen in pharmacies.

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Speaker 2: There's only a little bit of information available to pharmacies

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Speaker 2: at the moment, but as far as we're aware, nineteen

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Speaker 2: pharmacies in the nt expressed an interest in delivering the

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Speaker 2: COVID vaccine back in March, and just ten days ago

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Speaker 2: they were approached by the Commonwealth to see if they

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Speaker 2: were still interested, and sixteen of those have agreed to participate.

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Speaker 2: We expect, or we've been told that the start date

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Speaker 2: for that will be the twelfth of July and pharmacies

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Speaker 2: are expecting to be onboarded this weekend to be able

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Speaker 2: to order stock. So that's all the information we have

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Speaker 2: currently for you.

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Speaker 1: Well that is that sounds like a good thing. Sixteen

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Speaker 1: have agreed to it. So sixteen of those pharmacies do

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Speaker 1: we know are they in Darwin? Some of them in

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Speaker 1: the rural area out in central Australia. Do we know

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Speaker 1: what areas they're in? Judas?

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Speaker 2: They are spread across the territory, So there are a

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Speaker 2: few in our springs, Tenant Creek, Catherine, Darwin and the

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Speaker 2: rural area are included in those numbers.

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Speaker 1: That's good to hear. I know that this will hopefully

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Speaker 1: make the role out a little easier for everybody. Do

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Speaker 1: you have any idea at this point in time how

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Speaker 1: it'll sort of work If you do want to go

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Speaker 1: into to a pharmacy to get the vaccine, there.

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Speaker 2: Will be a booking platform similarly to the one that

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Speaker 2: the vaccine hubs are using at the moment, so customers

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Speaker 2: can book online. I'd probably suggest though that if people

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Speaker 2: are interested that they ask their regular pharmacy whether they're

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Speaker 2: participating and get their name down on a list or

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Speaker 2: that kind of weight, you know, there may be some

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Speaker 2: weight to get stock.

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Speaker 1: And Judith, do you know if it will be the

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Speaker 1: phiser and the astrosenica vaccine at this point or is

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Speaker 1: that detail still being worked through.

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Speaker 2: That detail is still being worked through. We haven't been

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Speaker 2: informed whether it's one or both. We would really like

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Speaker 2: for it to be Firezer as well, given that the

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Speaker 2: storage conditions have changed for the fires A vaccine, it's

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Speaker 2: definitely something that pharmacies can store appropriately and give safely.

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Speaker 2: And obviously there's a greater demand for the fire A

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Speaker 2: vaccine in the territory at the moment too, so we've

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Speaker 2: got our fingers crossed that pharmacies can give both.

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Speaker 1: And Judith, how are all of those pharmacies, all sixteen

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Speaker 1: of them feeling about about rolling out the vaccine from

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Speaker 1: the twelfth of July.

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Speaker 2: Pharmacies are very pleased to be included in the rollout.

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Speaker 2: Pharmacies in the NTA have been vaccinating with the flu

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Speaker 2: vaccine and measles and hooping cough since twenty fifteen, so

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Speaker 2: they're quite experienced vaccinators. Now the COVID vaccine isn't really

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Speaker 2: any different to give to those vaccines that they're experienced with,

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Speaker 2: so they're really pleased to be coming on board and

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Speaker 2: helping Territorians get their COVID vaccination.

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Speaker 1: And Judith, is it a situation where does the pharmacist

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Speaker 1: do the vaccine? Do they have a nurse that works

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Speaker 1: in there that delivers it, how exactly does it?

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Speaker 2: But that's the pharmacist. So pharmacists are qualified to give vaccinations.

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Speaker 2: There's a course that they need to do to prove

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Speaker 2: that they're competent, and they need to have staff members

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Speaker 2: within the pharmacy who are first aid trained to be

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Speaker 2: able to provide backup support to the pharmacist. So it

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Speaker 2: will be just like getting a flu vaccine in your pharmacy.

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Speaker 2: Now you'll book online, the pharmacist will give you the

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Speaker 2: vaccine and you'll sit in the pharmacy for fifteen minutes

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Speaker 2: and wait so that they can check there's no adverse event,

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Speaker 2: and the history of your vaccination will appear on the

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Speaker 2: Australian Immunization Register just the same way it would if

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Speaker 2: you've got the vaccination in a GP practice or one

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Speaker 2: of the COVID hubs.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff. And I guess the positive is that because

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Speaker 1: it has been rolled out in the in the GP's

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Speaker 1: clinics and the different vaccine hubs that we sort of

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Speaker 1: know how things need to happen, and so rolling it

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Speaker 1: into the pharmacies just seems like the next step.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Absolutely, pharmacies are open extended hours as well, so

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Speaker 2: it provides another opportunity for people who work or find

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Speaker 2: it difficult to get a GP appointment. You know, you

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Speaker 2: might be able to go to a pharmacy on a

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Speaker 2: Saturday or after hours and get your COVID vaccination there.

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Speaker 2: So it's a great way to extend the program to

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Speaker 2: those who find it difficult currently.

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Speaker 1: Well, Judith, all of us the Pharmacy Guild NTI branch,

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Speaker 1: we really appreciate you having a chat with us this

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Speaker 1: morning and talking us through that roll out in our pharmacies.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Katie, thank you.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate your time. Judith,