This year the Infection Prevention team held a 22-hour jabathon and have seen a massive increase in uptake for the flu jab in just week one of their campaign. Already more than 2,400 members of staff have had their jab. This just goes to show how keen our staff are to protect our patients.
The October issue features:
flu vaccination – new information leaflet for those aged 65 years of age or older - download or order now!
Plutopox outbreak simulation
New resources - pull up banners for hospitals, social media banners for flu, vaccine packaging poster and a visual guide to vaccines poster
revised inactivated influenza vaccine information for healthcare practitioners
flu vaccine availability and eligibility – 2018 to 2019 children’s programme
adrenaline auto-injector supply issues
ordering restriction on BCG vaccine has been removed
reminder about MMR vaccine ordering restriction
vaccine supply for non routine programmes
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Immunity is the ability of the human body to protect itself from infectious disease. The defence mechanisms of the body are complex and include innate (non-specific, non-adaptive) mechanisms and acquired (specific, adaptive) systems.
The January issue features:
the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) as it applies to centrally supplied vaccines for the national immunisation programme
flu vaccine information and availability 2018 to 2019 for the children’s national immunisation programme
BCG vaccine (AJ Vaccines) for the national BCG programme
update on MMR vaccine ordering restriction
fundamentals of immunisation course
PHE have received a number of enquiries about re-calling eligible patients and health care workers who have already received trivalent influenza vaccine (TIV) to additionally give them quadrivalent influenza vaccine (QIV). This is unlikely to be of benefit and recall of such vaccinated individuals is not recommended.
To assess the effectiveness and potential side effects of formula feeding to reduce pain during vaccination among infants.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Published on 24 April 2018
Contacting patients by telephone or mail about recommended immunisations leads to eight more people in every 100 being immunised. Text messages, postcards or automatic dialling techniques and recorded voices are the reminder methods that have the highest certainty of being effective.
This leaflet is aimed at parents of babies at risk from the hepatitis B virus. It explains the course of vaccinations which help to protect babies from developing an infection.
NHS Digital have released the childhood vaccination coverage statistics for 2017-18. Dr David Elliman looks at the possible factors that might be influencing uptake in routine vaccinations.
The new Immform guidance from Public Health England has been released detailing how trusts should report their vaccination uptake for frontline healthcare workers.
Adolescent collection (HPV, MenACWY and Td/IPV) user guidance 2017 to 2018
The user guide provides NHS England Local Teams and Screening and Immunisation Teams (SITs) with detailed guidance on how to submit data for the Adolescent Vaccine Coverage Collection (which includes HPV, MenACWY and Td/IPV vaccines) for the 2017 to 2018 Local Authority Annual Survey, via the ImmForm web-based system provided by PHE.
Today, senior leaders in the NHS published a letter that was sent to all chief executives of NHS trusts highlighting the importance of healthcare workers protecting their patients, colleagues and families by getting vaccinated against flu.
Jo Keal and Gail Beckett discuss measles in light of the recent rise in the number of cases in the UK and Europe, leading to outbreaks in vulnerable populations, and explore how practice nurses are in a unique position to influence the health of the wider population. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
The aim of the herpes zoster (shingles) vaccination programme is to reduce the incidence and severity of shingles disease in older people and started in September 2013.
The guidance for healthcare professionals document includes information on:
shingles infection; programme delivery; shingles vaccine;
vaccine eligibility;
vaccine administration