This leaflet includes:
the MMR booster
the diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and polio booster
the annual childhood nasal flu programme
revised routine immunisation schedule and selective immunisation schedule from Autumn 2018
The RCPCH highly recommends vaccination and that anyone who has concerns or questions talk to their health visitor, practice nurse or general practitioner (GP).
The March issue features:
National Immunisation Network (NIN) Meeting May 2019
the EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) and Delegated Regulation as applicable to centrally supplied vaccines for the National Immunisation Programme
revised rash in pregnancy guidance
annual flu letter published
new improved edition of the core leaflets published
vaccine supply for the routine programme
vaccine supply for the non routine programme
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Public Health England's latest round of flu vaccination uptake figures show 70.3 per cent of all eligible frontline healthcare workers have received their flu vaccination so far this season - the highest uptake to date.
Annual influenza vaccination is recommended for all healthcare workers (HCWs) to help reduce the risk of contracting the virus and transmitting it to vulnerable people, especially older adults in residential care facilities. Vaccination uptake among HCWs remains low. Aim: To investigate HCWs’ attitudes towards, and beliefs about, seasonal influenza vaccination in a residential care facility. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Although maternal tetanus immunisation has been effectively implemented for many years in the developing world,1 there has been a renewed global interest in maternal immunisation programmes over the past several years.2–5 This has been driven partly by the severity of the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic in pregnant women and the safety provided by the widespread maternal immunisation programme implemented in response to the pandemic.6 7 It has also been increasingly appreciated that maternal immunisations are an excellent way to provide protection to young infants before their own primary immunisation series would begin. There are several reasons that immunising pregnant women is an attractive vaccination strategy...... To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
This study supports earlier studies that the MMR vaccine has no link with the risk of autism.
It follows a 2014 review that pooled the results of 10 observational studies on childhood vaccine and found no evidence of any link between the MMR vaccine and autism.
The strength of this study is that it follows a large number of children. This makes the findings more reliable when assessing a fairly rare outcome like autism, and reduces the possibility that the findings are down to chance.
Public Health England (PHE) has published mid-season data on the effectiveness of this year’s flu vaccines, alongside data from other countries, in Eurosurveillance. The data suggest that the nasal spray flu vaccine is 87% effective in children aged 2 to 17 years against the main circulating strain, influenza A(H1N1)pmd09.
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