Services
Vaccinations
Most routine vaccinations will be available here without seeing a doctor first — and for some, a pharmacy is simply the easier door.
What we will offer
- Influenza, annually
- COVID-19, as recommended
- Shingles
- Pneumococcal
- Tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis boosters
- Hepatitis A and hepatitis B
- HPV
- Meningococcal
- Travel vaccinations — see travel medications
Two separate questions get confused constantly: whether a pharmacist may give you a vaccine, and whether the province will pay for it. Neither answer predicts the other.
Where the line falls
Ontario sets out which vaccinations a pharmacist may administer and from what age, and the rules are not uniform — a vaccine a pharmacist can give a 40-year-old is not automatically one they can give a child. Some vaccinations remain with a physician or a public health unit regardless of age.
Rather than publish a list of ages that will be out of date within a year, we will tell you before you make the trip. Ask, and if it is not something we can do you will be told where it actually is available instead of being sent away.
Mpox, specifically
Mpox vaccination in Toronto is distributed through Toronto Public Health and its partner sites rather than through community pharmacies. We will point you to where it is genuinely available rather than imply we hold it.
What it will cost
Some vaccinations are publicly funded for some people, in which case there is nothing to pay and nothing to claim. Where one is not funded for you, it becomes an ordinary purchase, and some private drug plans reimburse it.
You will be told which situation applies to you, and what it will cost, before anything is given. That is the whole of the policy. See coverage and costs for how we will work through a plan with you.
Nobody should discover the price of a vaccination after it is in their arm.
Common questions
Will I need an appointment?
Walk-in for routine vaccinations is the intention, with booking available. Exact arrangements will be published before we open.
I don’t know which ones I’ve had.
Very common, particularly if you moved countries. Bring whatever record you have in whatever language it is in. Where the record is genuinely gone there are routes forward, and your prescriber can work them out with you.
Can I get several at once?
Often, yes, and it saves a second trip. Whether it is appropriate in your case is a clinical question that will be answered before anything is given rather than assumed.
I’m on hormone therapy — does anything change?
Some recommendations differ, and it is exactly the sort of thing that gets missed when care is split across places. See gender-affirming pharmacy care.
Kind Clinic on the second floor handles vaccinations that need a prescriber, childhood schedules and catch-up at any age. Kind Clinic and Kind Pharmacy are separate businesses under common ownership. You can fill your prescription anywhere.
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