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Vaccine update: issue 311, August 2020

Latest developments in vaccines, vaccination policies and procedures for immunisation practitioners.

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Vaccine update: issue 311, August 2020

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The August issue features:

  • JCVI interim report on priority groups for immunisation during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • improving access to immunisations for hard to reach 0 to 19 years population within Berkshire
  • call for submissions for our ‘How we did it.’
  • HPV for all leaflet translated
  • new HPV vaccine coverage data collection tool: 2020 to 2021
  • TB, BCG and Your Baby - new poster available to order
  • Rabies and Immunoglobulin Service (RIgS) – no longer a stockholder
  • routine service
  • out of hours service
  • shingles vaccination programme
  • updated Patient Group Directions (PGDs) are now published
  • training and guidance
  • time to apply for a PhD?
  • 31st National Immunisation Conference for Healthcare Workers
  • PNEUMOVAX® 23 (pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine) pre-filled syringe presentation
  • Health matters: teleconference on flu vaccination
  • vaccines for the 2020 to 2021 children’s flu programme supplied by PHE: Vaccine availability
  • maternal Pertussis programme - change to dTaP/IPV vaccine
  • update to Bexsero Patient Information Leaflet
  • MMR vaccine ordering
  • The EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) and Delegated Regulation
  • Summer bank holiday delivery and order cut-off changes
  • ImmForm web address has changed
Published 28 August 2020