Dear Practice Manager
You should have received the attached email from Paula McLachlan this morning. It contains all the latest advice from NHS England Public Health re this year's flu vaccines. We thought it worth resending in case any of you have not been included (if you have not received...
Please see below important information from the Screening & Immunisation Team, Public Health England (South East):
Dear Colleagues,
I am writing to make you aware of a recent change in the Green Book in relation to the MMR vaccination programme.
The current advice is: if a child is given a...
No. The practice cannot charge any patient registered with the practice. You can refer the patient to another practice who can provide a private service. You can use your judgement and decide if it is in the patients interests to be vaccinated, and if it is you can provide the service in the...
Education Board Membership, Course Withdrawals and DNAs, Level 2 Dementia Update, Kent & Medway GP Staff Training Team Review Update, Kent & Medway GP Staff Training Team Service Update, Resus Training following CQC Report, Phlebotomy training and the Care Certificate, Practice Manager/Practice...
Please see attached letter from NHS England following the announcement that in the 2017/18 flu season it will support the delivery of flu immunisation for social care workers that offer direct patient care.
Health and social care staff, employed by a registered residential care/nursing home or...
The Green Book has the latest information on vaccines and vaccination procedures, for vaccine preventable infectious diseases in the UK.
Contents
Revisions
The Green Book
Part 1: principles, practices and procedures
Part 2: the diseases, vaccinations and vaccines
Health professionals and...
SENT ON BEHALF OF DAWN HOLLIS TO PRACTICE MANAGERS, IMMS LEADS, CCGs, LMCs
Dear Colleagues,
Please see message below from the national flu team, along with attached documents.
The information attached provides some guidance and FAQs to help in planning the delivery of your flu vaccination...
The clinical benefits of hepatitis B immunisation are clear, but there is less clarity in the understanding of the regulations covering hepatitis B immunisation.
This is manifested by some practices being pressurised by their Primary Care Organisations (PCOs) into giving hepatitis B...
Dear Colleagues
CQRS have confirmed that as indicator HEP003 is now paid within the Global sum of Childhood Immunisation Target payments, this indicator is no longer a payment mechanism on their system. As you are aware HEP002 and HEP003 were paid to practices at 2 x £9.80 upon the...
Dear colleagues
Meningococcal B for infants FAQs
NHS Employers have updated their vaccs and imms FAQs in relation to meningococcal B for infants to explain the eligible age cohort (2 - 13 months), as well as a catch-up cohort up to 2 years for children born on or after 1 May 2015.
The FAQs...
This resource was was developed by the Travel and Migrant health team in London for primary care colleagues, with “advice and guidance on the health needs of migrant patients for healthcare practitioners".
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/nhs-entitlements-migrant-health-guide
Patient Group Directions (PGDs) provide a legal framework that allows some registered health professionals to supply and/or administer specified medicines to a pre-defined group of patients, without them having to see a prescriber (such as a doctor or nurse prescriber). Supplying and/or...
The GPC guidance Patient Group Directions and Patient Specific Directions in General Practice has been redrafted to clarify the position of PSDs, confirming that they do not necessarily have to be in written form, but can also be a verbal instruction. The new guidance is available on the BMA...
Routine vaccination for over 70s - SFE
Catch up programme - Enhanced service
From 1 September 2013, a shingles vaccination programme was introduced for patients aged 70, but not yet 71 [route cohort] as well as a catch-up programme for patients aged 78. As from 1 April 2015, patients aged 70...
Worldwide, three types of typhoid vaccine are available: a polysaccharide vaccine; an oral, live, attenuated vaccine; and a whole-cell inactivated vaccine. Please see Chapter 33 of the Green Book for advice and guidance: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/typhoid-the-green-book-chapter-33
Implementing the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation advice on vaccines in the NHS annual seasonal flu vaccination programme and reimbursement guidance for 2020/21
The finalised vaccinations and immunisations GMS guidance is now live on the NHS Employers website , and a link to this guidance is also available on the BMA vaccs and imms page .
Vaccinations Fees and Arrangements - BMA Guidance - guidance for GP practices, including new charges and changes to programmes and the vaccine schedule
Travel Vaccinations - BMA guidance on regulations for travel immunisations - some must always be given with no fee, some cannot, and some can...
