Vaccination
0NHS England (NHSE) has suggested that community pharmacies should offer HPV vaccinations to “raise awareness” and increase uptake of the jab.
0Commissioners are looking for 66 pharmacies in the Midlands to offer a respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and pertussis vaccination service.
1The CCA has welcomed the launch of a report by the Pharmacy Vaccinations Development Group (PVDG) which calls for community pharmacy to be “harnessed” to combat falling vaccine uptake
0The government has announced the dates for pharmacies to begin delivering free flu vaccinations in the autumn with no changes made to the eligible cohorts.
5A fitness-to-practise (FtP) committee has suspended a pharmacist for four months after she shared “misinformation about the MMR vaccination and autism”, which “risked serious harm” to a patient.
0NHS England (NHSE) has greenlit plans for the “vast majority” of vaccination and screening services to be commissioned locally from April next year.
0The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has called on the government to commission pharmacies to deliver “all vaccines” amid claims there is “very little appetite currently” to give them a greater role in vaccine delivery.
0Northern Ireland has become the only country in the UK to extend its NHS flu vaccination programme to the 50-64 age group amid increasing pressure on hospitals.
0The US President-elect Donald Trump has called for an investigation into the link between vaccines and autism – a debunked claim – and has said his health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr will be “working with” drug companies to find out “what’s happening”.
0Boots has launched a private respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination service in 75 stores across the UK for those who aren’t eligible for a free NHS vaccination.