Guidance

Vaccine incident guidance: responding to vaccine errors

This document will help providers and commissioners of immunisation services decide the appropriate response to vaccine incidents.

• From: UK Health Security Agency
• Published: 1 March 2012
• Last updated: 7 July 2022
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  1. 7 July 2022

     Updated guidance.

  2. 9 July 2021

     Updated Appendix D.

  3. 22 January 2020

     Updated advice in section 9.7 and recommendations in pneumococcal vaccines sections in appendix D.

  4. 19 September 2019

     Revised and updated the vaccine incident guidance.

  5. 1 March 2012

     First published.

Applies to England

Documents

Vaccine incident guidance: responding to errors in vaccine storage, handling and administration

Ref: UKHSA gateway number: GOV-12711

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Details

This document is intended to be used by a wide range of healthcare professionals, with a role in delivering immunisation programmes, in the investigation and management of vaccine storage or administration incidents. These could include:

• general practice staff
• school immunisation providers
• screening and immunisation teams (SITs)
• health protection teams (HPTs)
• healthcare practitioners working in other service areas where immunisations are given