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Vaccine update: issue 324, November 2021, flu special edition

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

Applies to England

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Vaccine update: issue 324, November 2021 flu special edition (print version)

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Details

This flu special edition features:

  • tripartite annual flu letter
  • update to influenza Green Book chapter 19
  • guidance on immunisation training for 2021 to 2022 influenza season
  • Patient Group Direction (PGD)
  • national protocol for inactivated influenza vaccine
  • frontline healthcare workers
  • health and social care worker and public-facing marketing campaigns
  • key information for parents on influenza and COVID-19 vaccine in schools
  • can flu and COVID-19 vaccines be given at the same time?
  • flu vaccination programme resources available to order including information leaflets, posters, simple and eas-read versions, vaccination videos, resources for schools, consent form and template invitation letters
  • disease surveillance and vaccine uptake reporting by UKHSA
  • vaccines used in the programme, vaccine supply and availability
Published 16 November 2021