National Pharmacy Week

National Pharmacy Week acknowledges the invaluable contributions pharmacists and technicians make to patient care in hospitals, outpatient clinics, and other healthcare settings. Celebrated every December in The Philippines, it is a time to recognize the powerful impact you make on your patients. It is an opportunity to raise your patients’ and colleagues’ awareness about the vital role pharmacists play on the healthcare team. It also provides a meaningful way for you to affirm your staff’s hard work to ensure medication use at your organization is safe and patients are achieving optimal outcomes. 

Pharmacists wear many hats to ensure safe medication use and access to key healthcare services, spanning a variety of practice settings. One vital role for pharmacists in public health is vaccinating the public. In addition to providing seasonal vaccinations, pharmacists are equipped to review full vaccine history, determine eligibility, and administer other appropriate vaccines, such as for pneumonia, shingles, and human papillomavirus.

We at New Marketlink Pharmaceutical Corporation see and recognize that pharmacists do a great deal to provide vaccines to the community each year during respiratory season, as well as throughout the year to ensure individuals are currently on vaccine schedules. It’s important to understand the state-specific scope of pharmacist-administered vaccination, to ensure patients have current information regarding access. Pharmacists are positioned to address vaccine hesitation and patient questions to instill confidence in the community.