Vaccine update: issue 320, April 2021

Vaccine Update:issue 320 April 2021

This month's second edition features:

• Immunization agenda 2030
• European Immunization week - Social media cards to promote routine immunisation
• 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

You can also read the COVID-19 Phase 2 special vaccine update: issue 319, April 2021 here

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