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FLU VACCINATIONS AND COVID-19 PRECAUTIONS (Read Carefully)
Our staff members are being extra vigilant during this time to ensure a safe and clean working environment to safeguard the health of our staff and customers.
To deliver this service safely to our customers we have implemented the following measures:
•If you have any cold & flu, or COVID symptoms, please do not attend your appointment. Please cancel and rebook for another time when you are well.
•Hand sanitiser will be available for use by the doctor between each vaccination and is available for customer use prior to the vaccination.
•Your temperature will be taken using a no‐touch thermometer prior to vaccination to ensure that you do not have a fever.
•Please wait outside the pharmacy till a pharmacy assistant guides you to the vaccination administering area
•All hard surfaces in the vaccination room are cleaned regularly.
•Staff and customers will be required to socially distance by 1.5 meters at all times.
Privacy Information Collection Disclaimer
Heathershaw’s Compounding Pharmacy collects your personal and sensitive information (including name, phone number, email address, Medicare number) when you book your health consultation, for the purposes of ensuring your suitability for vaccination, administering the booking and unless otherwise advised by you, sending you electronic messages (e.g. emails or SMS reminders) or telephoning you. It is a condition of booking a health consultation with us, that we collect your personal information, and where reasonably required, your sensitive information. We will disclose this information to the doctor who completes your vaccination, and others in accordance with privacy legislation. Our privacy policy can be found here (link).