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Vaccine update: issue 318, March 2021

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

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Vaccine update: issue 318, March 2021 (print version)

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The March 2021 issue features:

  • COVID-19 vaccination programme success continues
  • JCVI issues interim advice on Phase 2 of COVID-19 vaccination programme rollout
  • guidance for unpaid carers who are eligible for their COVID-19 vaccination
  • delivering vaccines to homeless people
  • COVID-19 programme resources and training
  • supply and priority groups for pneumococcal polysaccharide 23-valent vaccine (PPV23)
  • Easter and May bank holiday delivery schedule for COVID-19 vaccines
  • vaccine supply for the routine vaccination programme
  • Viper antivenom has changed
  • change to dTaP/IPV vaccine for both the pre-school booster and maternal pertussis dTaP/IPV programmes
  • update to Bexsero Patient Information Leaflet
  • MMR vaccine ordering
  • the EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) and Delegated Regulation as applicable to PHE supplied vaccines for the national immunisation programme
  • vaccine supply for non-routine vaccination programme
Published 23 March 2021