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Immunisation

Immunisation information for health professionals and immunisation practitioners.

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Immunisation is the most important way of protecting individuals and the community from vaccine preventable infectious diseases.

‘Immunisation against infectious disease’, also known as the Green Book, has the latest information on vaccines and vaccination procedures for all the vaccine preventable infectious diseases that may occur in the UK.

Health professionals and immunisation practitioners can keep up to date with developments in the field and updates to the Green Book through regular Vaccine update newsletters.

For schedules showing when childhood immunisation should be given, see:

• routine childhood immunisations from June 2013

• the complete routine immunisation schedule 2013 to 2014: updated to include all the recent vaccine introductions and re-scheduling, this two-sided chart also features the immunisations for all those at risk

The Vaccination of individuals with uncertain or incomplete immunisation status chart provides information on what to do when patients present with uncertain immunisation histories.

A timeline showing the development and introduction of vaccines in the UK from 1796 to 2013.

The What to expect after vaccinations leaflet describes the side effects that might occur in babies and young children up to 5 years of age.

Recent and new vaccine introductions

New vaccine programmes and changes to existing vaccine programmes are announced in joint letters from the Department of Health, Public Health England and NHS England.

Training slide sets and other resources to accompany these new programmes are also available:

• Rotavirus
• Meningococcal C (MenC)
• Measles catch-up
• Flu for 2013 to 2014, including the new children’s programme
• Shingles for adults 70 and 79 years
• Whooping cough and pregnancy resources are available to order from the DH Publications orderline.

ImmForm

The ImmForm website is the government’s vaccine ordering facility. You need to use Internet Explorer to use the website. There are ImmForm helpsheets to help you use the site.

Immunisation publications

Access current immunisation publications below and order them online. You can also browse an archive of older publications.

Vaccine uptake

Access the latest vaccine uptake guidance and statistics.

JCVI

Minutes of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) meetings are available for review.

Vaccines and faith communities

Public Health England (PHE) has published advice from representatives of the Jewish community and global Muslim communities regarding porcine or other animal-derived ingredients in medicinal products such as vaccines.

History of measles and rubella vaccination

• Excerpt about rarity of serious adverse reactions to the MMR vaccine in Current problems in pharmacovigilance, Vol 21, November 1995, published by the Medicines Control Agency and Committee on Safety of Medicines

• Department of Health report on the 1994 measles rubella immunisation campaign One Year On

• Durham University report and evaluation on measles-rubella immunisation campaign in the mid-1990s

Documents

1. Protocol for ordering, storing and handling vaccines

   • 2 April 2014
   • Guidance

2. The complete routine immunisation schedule 2013 to 2014

   • 5 July 2013
   • Guidance

3. Routine childhood immunisations from June 2013

   • 30 May 2013
   • Guidance

4. National immunisation programme: planned changes for 2013 to 2014

   • 30 April 2013
   • Guidance

5. Routine childhood immunisations from September 2012

   • 10 April 2013
   • Guidance

6. A quick guide to childhood immunisation for the parents of premature babies

   • 17 January 2014
   • Promotional material

7. Pre-school immunisations: a guide to vaccinations at 3 years and 4 months of age

   • 17 January 2014
   • Promotional material

8. A guide to immunisations for babies up to 13 months of age

   • 29 July 2013
   • Promotional material

9. Immunisations between 12 and 13 months of age

   • 13 August 2013
   • Promotional material

10. Immunisations at secondary school

    • 17 January 2014
    • Promotional material

11. What to expect after vaccinations

    • 10 March 2014
    • Guidance

12. General consent form template for immunisation

    • 28 October 2013
    • Form

13. Keep your vaccines healthy poster

    • 20 March 2014
    • Guidance

14. Immunisation: why our children must be protected (DVD)

    • 12 March 2014
    • Promotional material

Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib)

1. Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib): revised recommendations for the prevention of secondary cases

   • 21 August 2013
   • Guidance

Human papillomavirus (HPV)

1. The human papillomavirus vaccine: beating cervical cancer – the facts

   • 30 September 2012
   • Promotional material

2. Your guide to the HPV vaccination from September 2012: leaflet

   • 30 September 2012
   • Promotional material

3. Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination consent form

   • 30 September 2012
   • Form

4. The HPV vaccine: beating cervical cancer – questions and answers

   • 30 September 2012
   • Promotional material

Pertussis (whooping cough)

1. Whooping cough vaccination programme for pregnant women: extension to 2014

   • 10 May 2013
   • Guidance

Tuberculosis

1. TB, BCG and your baby leaflet

   • 29 November 2013
   • Promotional material

2. Tuberculosis: the disease, its treatment and prevention

   • 10 April 2013
   • Promotional material

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