COVID Vaccine
To register your interest in being contacted for a Covid Vaccine appointment in your preferred Healthwise Pharmacy please complete the details below.
Getting the Covid Vaccine
Vaccines teach your immune system how to protect you from diseases. It is much safer for your immune system to learn how to protect you through vaccination than by getting COVID-19.
A vaccine is a substance that should improve immunity (protection) to a particular disease. The COVID-19 vaccine will offer you protection from COVID-19. If people are vaccinated, it should also reduce the numbers who become seriously ill or even die from COVID-19 in our community.
Vaccine Information
Who should get the vaccine?
While it is up to you to decide to get the vaccine, the HSE, the World Health Organization and the Department of Health strongly recommend that you do so as soon as it is offered to you.
Are COVID-19 vaccines safe?
Covid-19 vaccines used in Ireland are safe. All vaccines used in the Republic of Ireland must be approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). The EMA only approves vaccines once they are satisfied that they are safe and effective. Because COVID-19 has caused a crisis all around the world, lots of work is being done by experts in many countries. These experts have worked together to develop safe vaccines as quickly as possible. But COVID-19 vaccines that are used in Ireland and approved by the EMA must still go through the same safety and effectiveness assessments that all other vaccines and medicines go through before they are approved. In Ireland, the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) works to make sure that side effects that people get are reported and followed up.
Are there side effects from COVID-19 vaccines?
Like all medicines, vaccines can have side effects. The side effects are mostly mild or moderate and include things like having a sore arm or itching in the part where the injection was given, feeling tired, feeling sick, swollen lymph glands in the arm where the vaccine was given, body chills or feeling like you have a fever. Some people don’t get any side effects at all. More rarely, people experience sleeplessness, or temporary weakness in their face muscles. The side effects from a COVID-19 vaccine are similar to the side effects that you can get from other vaccines. We know this from looking at the results of clinical trials, and from the reports from the millions of people around the world who have already been vaccinated. We know that serious side effects to vaccines, like an allergic reaction, are extremely rare. As more people in Ireland and around the world get this vaccine, the HSE will update our website with any new information. You can report any side effects you experience to the HPRA. The link is below.
WHEN YOU SHOULD NOT GET A COVID VACCINE:
- Following an anaphylactic reaction to a first dose of a Covid Vaccine • If you are allergic to any of the ingredients contained in the vaccine as listed further below
VACCINE INFORMATION LEAFLETS:
Please read the relevant information about your assigned vaccine prior to your appointment. Leaflets will also be available at the pharmacy when you arrive for your vaccination.
Booking An Appointment
Healthwise Pharmacies are now administering the Janssen Covid 19 vaccine in selected pharmacies and you can pre-register for the Pfizer Vaccine (coming soon ).
If you would like to register to receive a vaccine when an appropriate dose becomes available, please use the registration form below
To register your interest in being contacted for a Covid Vaccine appointment in your preferred Healthwise Pharmacy please complete the details below.
If your local Healthwise Pharmacy is not listed please register your interest for pharmacy nearest to you.As more vaccines become available we will be adding more pharmacies, but in the mean time please register for one of the below.
