Midwives, paramedics, and physiotherapists could deliver covid and flu vaccines under government plan

A wider range of healthcare professionals, including midwives, paramedics, physiotherapists, and pharmacists, will be asked to administer covid-19 and flu vaccines under changes proposed by the government.1

The government is consulting on changes to the Human Medicine Regulations with the aim of enabling the safe deployment of a covid-19 vaccine as soon as one is available. The changes include allowing the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency to grant temporary authorisation for a covid-19 vaccine that has not yet been licensed by the European Medicines Agency, if one is discovered before 2021 that …