Workshop - Beyond flu season: building year-round protection
| Saturday, February 28, 2026 |
| 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM |
| Semillon 2 and 3 |
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Sponsored By:
GSK
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Overview
Peter Guthrey - Senior Pharmacist, Strategic Policy | PSA
Details
Pharmacists have become trusted vaccination providers, yet opportunities remain to make immunisation a consistent part of year-round patient care. This workshop will use complex case examples to apply 2026 ATAGI advice and Australian Immunisation Handbook updates.
Through practical examples, participants will learn how to identify opportunities for protection across age groups and conditions, strengthen communication strategies, and implement effective follow-up and recall systems. The session will inspire pharmacists to take a leadership role in preventative health and embed vaccination as an ongoing part of quality pharmacy practice.
Learning objectives:
- Discuss strategies to improve engagement and vaccination uptake.
- Recognise how proactive planning supports continuity of care.
- Describe ways to embed vaccination as part of routine pharmacy services.
- Identify practice behaviours to be adopted that enable a whole-of-life approach to delivering vaccination care.
Competency standards (2016): 1.6, 2.1, 3.1, 4.2
Speaker
Peter Guthrey
Senior Pharmacist, Strategic Policy
PSA
Workshop - Beyond flu season: building year-round protection
Biography
Peter Guthrey holds the position of Senior Pharmacist, Strategic Policy at the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia.
Peter supports policy development, advocacy activities, media, regulatory submissions and practice advice.
Peter has driven key PSA policy work, including Pharmacists in 2023, Pharmacists in 2030 and PSA's medicine safety agenda, including PSA's flagship Medicine Safety report series.
Peter has over 17 years’ experience in pharmacy policy, regulation, advocacy, quality management and community pharmacy practice.
Peter maintains practice as a community pharmacist, working after-hours at Melbourne’s Ascot Vale Pharmacy.
