Vaccinations summary table November 2013
Vaccination and brief
explanation
When is it
being
introduced?
What does it mean for practices?
Further information
On 10 May 2013
this programme
was extended
for at least
another six
months.
Provide the pertussis vaccine to pregnant women
in the third trimester (recommended between 28
and 38 weeks of pregnancy).
Information relating to the
pertussis vaccination
programme is available on the
BMA website, as well as on the
NHS Employers
website, including a set
of frequently asked questions.
Pertussis
Since 1 October 2012, a
temporary programme of
pertussis vaccinations for
pregnant women has been in
place.
Following advice from Joint
Committee on Vaccination and
Immunisation (JCVI), the
programme will be continued
until further notice.
Item of service fee of £7.67 will be paid per
dose of vaccine given.
Decide on the best way(s) to contact pregnant
women registered with your practice, provide
advice as necessary on the benefits of
vaccination, administer the vaccine and report
uptake to your Area Team / NHS England.
The vaccine is centrally procured so there are
no PA fees.
Further information (including
letters from the Chief Medical
Officer, Professor Sally
Davies and NHS Deputy Chief
Executive, David Flory) is
available here.
MMR
On 25 April 2013, NHS
England, Public Health
England (PHE) and the
Department of Health (DH)
jointly announced their
intention to run a MMR catchup campaign in England aimed
at quickly establishing a MMR
vaccination service with GP
practices to prevent cases of
the disease and deaths as a
result of children and young
adults being unprotected.
This catch-up
service
applies until
31 March 2014
and it is
anticipated
that all
qualifying
children and
young adults
will be
vaccinated by
1 September
2013.
Identify children aged 10 – 16 who have not
previously received MMR vaccination or who have
received only one dose and proactively contact
their families.
Item of service charge of £1.50 will be paid to
invite each at-risk child aged 10-16 [up to the
day before they turn 17] for a jab.
[Please note that the minimum requirement for
the catch-up service is a letter to be sent to
the children’s parent or guardian.]
Provide one or two doses as required to all
unvaccinated patients aged 16 and over who
present to the GP surgery requesting
vaccination.
Provision of vaccination to
children aged 10 -16 is
included in the capitation
payment (‘global sum’) of the
GP contract, assuming the
practice provides additional
services, so no claim for
reimbursement applies.
(General Medical Services
Statement of Financial
Entitlements Directions 2013
Annex B Part 2).
The MMR specification, letter
and joint FAQs are available
on the BMA website.
The FAQs are also available on
Item of service fee of £7.64 will be paid per
dose to vaccinate patients aged 16 and over.
the NHS Employers website.
The vaccine is centrally procured so there are
no PA fees.
Meningitis C
Changes to the Men C
vaccination schedule
commenced on 1 June 2013. In
summary, these changes are:
1 June 2013
Cease giving the second priming dose of Men C
at age 16 weeks as this will be replaced by a
booster dose given in adolescence.
The adolescent booster dose for academic year
2013-14 will be introduced in schools
(practices should not offer to provide this, as
there will be no reimbursement).
 the removal of the second
dose at 16 weeks (four
months) from the routine
schedule for infants; and,
 the introduction of an
adolescent booster dose at
around 14 years (school
year 10) for the academic
year 2013-14
 From mid-August 2014, there
will be a catch-up
programme of limited
duration to offer the
vaccine to first time
university entrants under
the age of 25 years, i.e.
those who will not have
been vaccinated under the
revised schedule at around
14 years.
Further information about the catch up
programme for pre-university students in August
2014 will be available nearer the time.
A revised chapter on Men C
vaccination, including
clinical advice and
information about the new Men
C vaccination schedule, has
been included in the Revised
chapter on Meningococcal
Vaccination of the ’Green
Book’.
The JCVI’s statement about the
revised Men C vaccination
schedule and subsequent
discussions, with details
about the changed schedule are
available at: JCVI statement
on revised Men C vaccination
and
JCVI minutes Oct 2012 and Feb
2013
Further information, including
FAQs, has been published by
Public Health England
Rotavirus
On 1 July 2013 a new vaccine
for infants was introduced
into the childhood
immunisation schedule against
the most common strains of
rotavirus (following
1 July 2013
Provide the rotavirus vaccine as part of the
childhood immunisation schedule (at 2 and 3
months).
Item of service fee of £7.63 will be paid for a
completed course.
Guidance on the contract
funding pages of the BMA
website.
Tripartite letter announcing
the vaccination schedule.
recommendations made by the
JCVI).
The vaccine is centrally procured so there are
no PA fees.
Green Book chapter on
rotavirus.
PHE Publications:
This is an oral vaccine that
should be offered routinely
to all babies at the age of
two months and again at three
months (that is, two doses,
four weeks apart) when they
attend for their first and
second routine childhood
immunisations.
Rotavirus training slideset
Protecting your baby against
rotavirus - leaflet
Protecting your baby against
rotavirus - flyer
Rotavirus Q&As for healthcare
practitioners
Rotavirus Q&A factsheet
Influenza (for 2 year olds)
From 1 September 2013, all
children aged two will be
offered a nasal flu vaccine
as part of a comprehensive
vaccination programme.
1 September
2013
a. a proactive call basis, if not considered
at-risk, or
b. a proactive call and recall basis, if
considered at-risk
A small number of pilots to
vaccinate primary and preschool aged children will run
in some areas to make sure
the NHS is ready to roll out
the programme to all preschool and primary school
children next year. Pilots
for secondary school children
will run in some areas in
2014 in order to roll out the
programme nationwide in 2015.
Shingles
In April
shingles
patients
71, on 1
Fluenz is the recommended vaccine which is
administered as a nasal spray.
Item of service fee of £7.64 will be paid for
each eligible patient.
The childhood influenza
specification is available
here and FAQs are available on
the vaccinations and
immunisations pages of the BMA
website.
Information about the
influenza programme is
available in our Focus on
vaccines and immunisations and
in the letter from NHS
England.
Practices should be able to record all
administered doses through a GPES extraction.
1 September
2013
2013, routine
vaccination for
aged 70, but not yet
September 2013, was
In addition to the current influenza DES,
practices should also vaccinate children who
attain the age of two and three years, but not
yet four, on 1 September 2013 on either:
Practices should provide the shingles vaccine
to patients aged 70, but not yet 71 [route
cohort] and all patients aged 79 [catch-up
cohort], on an opportunistic basis.
The shingles specification is
available here.
Further information, including
FAQs, is available on the NHS
Employers website.
introduced as part of the
2013/14
GMS contract changes.
A catch-up programme has also
been agreed, effective from 1
September 2013. It will
initially be rolled out to
all registered patients aged
79 years on 1 September 2013.
This programme will run for
12 months.
There is no requirement (or payment) for
practices to operate call and recall, but
should instead offer vaccination to eligible
patients when they access GP services.
The vaccine is a single dose that can be given
at the same time as the flu vaccine.
Item of service fee of £7.64 will be paid for
each registered patient who has received the
shingles vaccine
The vaccine is centrally procured so there are
no PA fees.
The programme may be extended in-year, to
patients aged 78 years, subject to vaccine
supply and advice from Public Health England.
There is also some information
on our contract funding pages
on the BMA website.