Workshop Three: Vaccinations for priority groups across life stages
| Sunday, August 3, 2025 |
| 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM |
| C2.2 + C2.3 |
| Sponsored By: |
Details
Following popular demand at the NSW and VIC/TAS ATU, this workshop will explore strategies to enhance overall vaccination rates, specifically focusing on HPV, pertussis, RSV, shingles, and pneumococcal diseases.
Participants will apply knowledge presented during the PSA25 vaccination stream, as well as recommendations found in the Australian Immunisation Handbook and ATAGI advice, to detailed case examples.
Delegates will be seated grouped by jurisdiction, with case-based learning specific to vaccination in each state and territory (TAS/NT/SA delegates will have cases common across three jurisdictions).
The perfect Sunday session to consolidate your learning across the conference and leave motivated to do more to protect your patients from vaccine-preventable diseases!
Learning objectives
- opportunistically recommend routine and recommended vaccination to patients, including for HPV, pertussis, RSV, shingles, and pneumococcal vaccines
- apply communication strategies to reduce vaccine hesitancy.
Competency standards (2016): 1.6, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.6
Speakers
Mr Peter Guthrey
Senior Pharmacist - Strategic Policy
PSA
Workshop Three: Vaccinations for priority groups across life stages
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.
