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Vaccine update: issue 289, December 2018

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

• From: Public Health England
• Published: 21 December 2018

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Vaccine update: issue 289, December 2018

Ref: PHE gateway number 2018674

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The December issue features:

• Christmas message
• 100 years of flu
• herpes zoster (shingles) immunisation programme 2017 to 2018: evaluation report
• Pertussis vaccination programme for pregnant women update
• human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination coverage in adolescent females in England: 2017to 2018 report
• The Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) as it applies to centrally supplied vaccines for the national immunisation programme
• Fluenz Tetra ordering in England
• supply of UK-licensed BCG vaccine manufactured by AJ Vaccines (formerly the Statens Serum Institut (SSI)) for the national BCG programme
• fundamentals of Immunisation - places still available

Published 21 December 2018