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Flu: Vaccination of pregnant women

Community pharmacy teams can start vaccinating pregnant women from today under the 2025/26 Adult Flu Vaccination Service. Vaccination of other eligible adult patients must not start until 1st October 2025. The service specification is clear that the NHS will not pay for vaccinations administered outside of the announced and authorised dates for vaccination. Read more about the [...]

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By |September 1st, 2025|Flu vac, Lexpos News|Comments Off on Flu: Vaccination of pregnant women

C-19 vaccination programme brought forward

Following guidance from the UKHSA, the Government has asked NHS England to bring forward the start of the COVID-19 autumn/winter booster programme to commence on 11th September 2023. Additional payments will be made for vaccinations administered in September and October. The Expression of Interest process for pharmacies (which was due to close last night) will [...]

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By |August 30th, 2023|C-19 vaccination, Flu vac, Lexpos News|Comments Off on C-19 vaccination programme brought forward

Flexibilities achieved on flu vac start date

NHS England has this afternoon announced that while the flu vaccination service will officially commence in October, pharmacy owners will be able to go ahead and vaccinate any patients who have already booked September appointments and be paid for those. The decision to allow booked appointments to go ahead follows high-level influencing work led by [...]

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By |August 10th, 2023|C-19 vaccination, Flu vac, Lexpos News|Comments Off on Flexibilities achieved on flu vac start date

Flu vac service spec published

NHS England (NHSE) has, today, published the service specification for the 2023/24 Community Pharmacy Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Advanced Service. Changes to the service requirements Only a small number of amendments have been made to the service specification this season. The key changes are: The eligible patient cohorts have been amended to reflect those previously announced, [...]

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By |August 4th, 2023|Flu vac, Lexpos News|Comments Off on Flu vac service spec published

Flu vac: important reminder

Contractors are reminded that they must ensure the correct flu vaccines are being used for each patient cohort within the NHS flu vaccination service. Please note, there is no provision for the use of standard egg-cultured quadrivalent influenza vaccine (QIVe) in the 65 years and over patient cohort. As set out in the reimbursement flu [...]

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By |September 29th, 2022|Flu vac, Lexpos News|Comments Off on Flu vac: important reminder