{"id":671067,"date":"2026-05-15T11:45:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/671067\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:45:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:45:44","slug":"ontario-allowing-pharmacists-to-treat-more-conditions-administer-more-vaccines-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/671067\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario allowing pharmacists to treat more conditions, administer more vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health minister says move will help people get faster access to care and ease pressure on primary care and emergency departments<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 Ontario pharmacists will soon be allowed to administer more vaccines and treat more common ailments, as part of the government&#8217;s continuing moves to expand their scope of practice.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Sylvia Jones says it will help people get faster access to care and ease pressure on primary care and emergency departments.<\/p>\n<p>Starting this July, pharmacists will be able to give vaccinations for tetanus, whooping cough, diphtheria, respiratory syncytial virus, shingles and pneumococcal vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial government has already allowed pharmacists to assess and treat 19 common ailments, and is now planning to add nine more, including head lice, nasal congestion, ringworm and warts.<\/p>\n<p>Jones says there are plans to add five more to that list in early 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The government has also directed Ontario\u2019s regulatory colleges for optometrists, physiotherapists, chiropractors, dental hygienists, denturists, and audiologists and speech-language pathologists to develop frameworks for expansions to those professions&#8217; scopes of practice.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 11, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Allison Jones, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health minister says move will help people get faster access to care and ease pressure on primary care&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,247120,84,392],"class_list":["post-671067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-expanded-role-pharmacistsontario-pharmacists-expanded-scope-of-practice","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}