Vaccine update: issue 320, April 2021, European Immunisation Week special edition
Latest developments in vaccines, vaccination policies and procedures for immunisation practitioners.
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The European Immunisation Week special edition features:
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VaccinesWork to bring us closer
- Immunization agenda 2030
- animal bites: rabies and other infections
- extension to the Shingles immunisation programme for those who missed vaccination during lockdown
- Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV23) – supply and administration
- ‘Give COVID the jab’ video
- vaccine supply for the routine vaccination programme
- May bank holidays order and delivery schedules for routine vaccinations
- 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 the non-routine programme