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NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE&I) has secured additional funding to pay for community pharmacies to vaccinate their frontline staff during this year’s flu season, it has announced.
Pharmacy contractors in England will be able to offer a free flu jab to their frontline staff, including locums, “who elect to receive their vaccination from the community pharmacy” between September 1 and March 31 next year, NHSE&I wrote in a letter to contractors yesterday (September 29).
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