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Vaccine update: issue 307, April 2020, World Immunization Week

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Vaccine update: issue 307, April 2020, World Immunization Week

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The April issue features:

  • European and World Immunization Week: immunizations protect you from disease
  • maintaining immunisation services during the COVID-19 pandemic to reduce the serious risk of vaccine-preventable disease
  • managing locally held vaccine stock in primary care
  • school-age immunisation programmes
  • immunisations offered as part of antenatal or post-natal care
  • conquering a new enemy: how soldiers are helping the fight against COVID-19
  • Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine (PPV) and PCV13 schedule change reminder
  • flu vaccine supply for the 2019 to 2020 children’s flu programme
  • maternal Pertussis programme – change to dTaP/IPV vaccine
  • update to Bexsero Patient Information Leaflet
  • MMR vaccine ordering
  • the EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) and Delegated Regulation as applicable to Public Health England (PHE) supplied vaccines for the national immunisation programme
  • early notice: May bank holidays delivery and order cut-off changes
  • registering for a new or updating your existing ImmForm vaccine ordering account

Updates to this page

Published 30 April 2020
Last updated 1 May 2020 + show all updates
  1. Added revised issue to clarify that the complete routine immunisation programme should be maintained.

  2. First published.

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