Vaccine update: issue 321, May 2021

Vaccine update: issue 321, May 2021

This month's edition features:

• parents’ and guardians’ views and experiences of accessing routine childhood vaccinations during the first wave of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in England.
• Vaccine update index
• Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine (PPV) prioritisation
• ovalbumin content for influenza vaccines for 2021 to 2022
• vaccine supply for routine vaccination programmes
• vaccines for the national COVID-19 programme supplied by PHE
• spring bank holiday COVID-19 vaccine deliveries
• PPV23 vaccine for the pneumococcal programme will be supplied by PHE from 1 June 2021
• 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
• ordering the MMR vaccine
• the EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) and Delegated Regulation as applicable to PHE supplied vaccines for the national immunisation programme
• registering for a new or updating your existing ImmForm vaccine ordering account
• vaccine supply for the non-routine programme

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