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Vaccine update: issue 318, March 2021

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

• From: Public Health England
• Published: 23 March 2021

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Vaccine update: issue 318, March 2021

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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