Midwives, physios and pharmacists to administer future UK Covid vaccine
by Ben Quinn from Science | The Guardian on (#59603)
Expanded workforce will undergo training programme to immunise as much of population as possible
Midwives, physiotherapists, pharmacists, student nurses and doctors are among those who will be authorised to administer a mass Covid-19 vaccine under new laws that have come into force.
They follow a consultation on moves to give emergency approval for a vaccine's use across the UK and an expanded workforce, which will be trained to give the injections to immunise as much of the population as quickly possible.
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