Administering Injections

The Pharmacy Act authorizes a registrant, subject to the terms, conditions and limitations imposed on their certificate of registration, to administer a substance specified in the regulations (O. Reg. 202/94) by injection. Prior to doing so, registrants must have completed an OCP-approved injection training course and registered their training with the College.

Pharmacists, pharmacy students and interns are permitted to administer substances specified in Schedule 1 of the regulations and all vaccines specified in Schedule 3 of the regulations to a patient five (5) years or older, except Influenza vaccines which may be administered to a patient two (2) years or older in accordance with Ontario’s publicly funded Universal Influenza Immunization Program (UIIP).

From the list of Schedule 3 vaccines, pharmacy technicians are only permitted to administer Influenza vaccines to a patient two (2) years or older in accordance with Ontario’s publicly funded Universal Influenza Immunization Program (UIIP) and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccines to a patient five (5) years or older.

Note: The authority for pharmacy professionals to administer COVID-19 vaccines (under the condition they are engaged to do so by an organization in an agreement with the Minister of Health) is granted by an exemption under O. Reg. 107/96, in effect until March 31, 2024. On April 1, 2024, the regulation adding COVID-19 vaccines to Schedule 3 of O. Reg. 202/94 comes into force and this authority will move under the Pharmacy Act.