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Government confirms Covid vaccine eligibility for spring 2025 programme ... on (JCVI) said both the spring and autumn Covid vaccine campaigns in 2025 should be narrowed as the disease becomes endemic. A smaller cohort had also been eligible in spring 2024. This autumn, Covid vaccines were available for free for those aged 65 to 75 years and those who were previously deemed to be in a clinical risk group, however this will not be the case in spring 2025. The latest JCVI update ... Date: 16-12-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Vaccinations and infections
NHSE urged to commission pharmacy vaccinations ... dded barriers to accessing care. Pharmacies effective in reaching patients from minority ethnic backgrounds The CCA's report, published today, noted that in 2021, over a third of community pharmacy Covid vaccines were provided in the 20% most deprived communities. And more than half of those given to people from a Black/Black British, Asian/Asian British, Chinese, mixed or other ethnic background in spring ... Date: 27-11-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Vaccinations and infections
Covid vaccine eligibility should shrink next year as disease becomes endemic, says JCVI ... ring and autumn Covid vaccine campaigns in 2025 should be restricted to the over-75s, residents of a care home for older adults and those six months and over who are immunosuppressed. This autumn, Covid vaccines are available for free for those aged 65 to 75 years and those who were previously deemed to be in a clinical risk group, however this will not be the case in neither spring nor autumn in 2025. A ... Date: 15-11-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • In Practice • News • Respiratory • Vaccinations and infections
New process for contractors looking to provide off-site Covid vaccines Contractors interested in running a Covid-19 vaccination site away from their pharmacy should check NHS England (NHSE) websites ‘regularly’ as more opportunities are commissioned, Community Pharmacy England (CPE) h ... Date: 15-07-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Respiratory • Vaccinations and infections
Quarter of all Covid vaccines administered in community pharmacies Almost two-thirds (62%) of Covid-19 vaccines were administered in community pharmacies in December 2023, according to the Company Chemists’ Association (CCA). The CCA’s analysis, based on data from NHS England a ... Date: 15-02-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Vaccinations and infections
Covid-19 vaccine contract extensions to carry added spring payment ... macies a patient group direction package that could see them delivering private Covid vaccinations ‘within weeks’. Boots and Superdrug are also looking into private provision of Covid vaccines. Date: 05-02-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Respiratory • Vaccinations and infections
Pharmacies to deliver first private Covid vaccinations ... appointment with pharmacies using the Pharmadoctor service through a patient website. The Pharmadoctor package will include consultation software and integrated PGDs for all licensed private Covid vaccines as they become available, the company said. And the jabs will cost patients £45, Pharmadoctor added. Vaccine stock will be available by 1 April and the package will be available at half-price – £249. ... Date: 01-02-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Respiratory • Vaccinations and infections
Covid undervaccination led to thousands of deaths in UK ... ltant in infectious diseases and vaccine clinical trials at Cardiff University School of Medicine, said the study ‘clearly demonstrates how effective Covid vaccines were at reducing the risk of severe outcomes’ from the disease during summer 2022. He said: ‘As the authors point out, these findings will help identify which groups should in future be specifically targeted to maximise uptake of vaccines for Cov ... Date: 23-01-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Vaccinations and infections
DHSC ‘in talks’ over private sale of Covid vaccines ... of Covid vaccinations, meaning manufacturers were free to agree deals with pharmacies to supply them. The NHSE vaccination strategy, published last week, noted that the private sale of Covid vaccines would be in line with other vaccines approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) that are currently sold privately, including those for flu, and ‘would not influence the scope or s ... Date: 18-12-2023 Categories: • Clinical • News • Vaccinations and infections
Nearly half of Covid vaccinations this year delivered by community pharmacists Community pharmacies have provided more than two million Covid vaccines in England so far in 2023 – representing almost half (46%) of all Covid vaccinations administered this year. The analysis by the Company Chemists’ Association (CCA), also show that to date, commun ... Date: 24-10-2023 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Vaccinations and infections
Limiting Covid boosters to the over-80s would be more cost-effective ... 13,990 hospitalisations if the more restricted cohorts had been chosen. A pre-print of a study from the UK Health Security Agency also published this week on the impact of two Covid vaccines used in the spring booster campaign found around a 50% effectiveness against hospitalisation above any remaining protection from previous vaccination. Researchers compared the Pfizer/BioNTech bivalent vaccine and the ... Date: 11-10-2023 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Vaccinations and infections
UKHSA: No blanket restriction on private Covid vaccines The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has confirmed that it has not placed any restriction on the private sale of Covid vaccinations, meaning that manufacturers could agree deals with pharmacies to supply them. ... Date: 21-08-2023 Categories: • Clinical • News • Vaccinations and infections
Pharmacy sector considers next steps amid flu vaccination change ... ‘total disrespect to the already overstretched pharmacy teams who need time to plan’. ‘If they’ve discovered that it’s better to co administer the flu and Covid vaccines at the same time then they should communicate that earlier, not at the last hour,’ she added. Following NHSE’s announcement that pharmacies would be able to submit payment claims for already booked flu vaccinations delivered in September, ... Date: 11-08-2023 Categories: • Clinical • News • Vaccinations and infections
Government proposes to extend pandemic vaccination regulations ... s as the country transitions out of the pandemic. These regulations have: enabled trained healthcare professionals to conduct the final stage of assembly, preparation, and labelling of Covid vaccines without additional marketing authorisations or manufacturer’s licences being required; allowed Covid and flu vaccines to be moved between premises at the end of the supply chain, by providers operati ... Date: 11-08-2023 Categories: • Clinical • News • Vaccinations and infections
JCVI recommends autumn Covid booster for over-65s and clinically vulnerable ... macists were told that they would be paid 25% less than last year for delivering the Covid-19 vaccination. NHS England has published the new enhanced service specification for Covid vaccines to be delivered between 1 September and 31 March next year, setting out that pharmacists will be paid £7.54 for each vaccine administered – down from £10.06 – and continue to be paid £10 for each housebound patient. I ... Date: 08-08-2023 Categories: • Clinical • News • Vaccinations and infections
Probe into UKHSA finds weak financial controls and 'alarming' lack of pandemic planning ... loy an approved Covid vaccine, with 144 million doses administered, and we have delivered over 25 billion items of PPE to the frontline. Buying vital Covid vaccines and medicines saved countless lives and kept NHS and care staff safe.' Dame Jenny Harries, Chief Executive of the UK Health Security Agency, said: 'We have always taken our accounts and financial controls very seriously. The UKHSA was created in ... Date: 05-07-2023 Categories: • News
Parents are confident in vaccines, but prefer to go to the GP for them, survey finds ... tank Policy Exchange recently recommended that all adult vaccinations in England be delivered through community pharmacies in England. Some community pharmacies are accredited to offer Covid vaccines for children, and some pharmacies in London offered the polio vaccination last year. Date: 07-02-2023 Categories: • News
People urged to book Covid boosters in final week ... n 2023 in favour of a more targeted approach. The health service is prepared to stand up future campaigns once JCVI advice is given and confirmed by the government on who will be eligible for Covid vaccines in future phases of the programme. Date: 06-02-2023 Categories: • Clinical • News • Respiratory
One in ten ‘bored of hearing about vaccines’, UK survey finds ... survey found that 14% of people are bored of hearing about vaccines. In its poll of 2,000 people across the UK last month, 38% of respondents said that they were grateful to have access to flu and Covid vaccines, while 25% felt that there was a sense of ‘vaccine fatigue’ following several Covid jabs over the last few years. The BMJ predicted that this winter could be worse than usual, due to reduced immun ... Date: 23-11-2022 Categories: • News
Covid antivirals could be supplied through community pharmacies ... ociation, which represents medicines suppliers, said that the Act recorded in legislation what has already been happening since the first Covid-19 vaccines were developed. In the UK, Covid vaccines for use in primary care are purchased by the NHS directly from manufacturers. In England, they are then sent to wholesaler-run storage hubs and distributed by suppliers to vaccine sites around the country, includi ... Date: 14-11-2022 Categories: • News
Pregnant women targeted with Covid vaccine misinformation ... roups who should be prioritised, including for boosters. A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social Care said: ‘The government, clinical and independent advice has not changed – Covid vaccines are safe and highly effective both for pregnant women and for those who are breastfeeding. ‘This is backed by extensive real-world data, including global analysis outside of clinical trials and in health ... Date: 06-09-2022 Categories: • Vaccinations and infections
Dual-variant Covid jab to be used in booster campaign from 5 September ... ofessional bodies on options to support providers in prioritising the completion of vaccinations in care homes as early as possible’. Opportunities to co-administer flu and Covid vaccines ‘should not unduly delay administration of either jab’ in care homes and for the housebound, it added. The letter said NHS England expects ‘all sites to be vaccinating at full operational capacity from 19 September’ and ... Date: 19-08-2022 Categories: • News
Timely Covid booster more important than type of vaccine, says government ... th four jabs now on offer. The Government yesterday accepted JCVI advice for Moderna’s updated Omicron vaccine to be offered as part of the programme. But the JCVI’s full advice on which Covid vaccines should be used in the booster campaign also includes the original Moderna and Pfizer jabs, as well as the Novavax vaccine. The three mRNA vaccine types should be prioritised but Novavax can be used off-l ... Date: 17-08-2022 Categories: • Vaccinations and infections
Three months on: How pharmacies are dealing with the cost-of-living crisis ... give Covid vaccines pharmacy staff require an additional set of skills than providing other vaccines, which should be reflected in the price,’ she adds. ‘Many pharmacies are still heavily banking on the cash flow from this service to staff afloat while we have no uplift from the contract, this is going to make life that little bit harder for them,’ she also explains. Date: 05-07-2022 Categories: • News
Covid vaccines prevented almost 20 million deaths in first year Covid-19 vaccines prevented almost 20 million deaths globally in the first year they were available, a mathematical modelling study finds. Using Covid-19 death records and total excess deaths from 185 countries ... Date: 29-06-2022 Categories: • Vaccinations and infections
NHS England sets out preliminary plans for autumn Covid boosters ... ccine for some at-risk groups and frontline health and social care workers, under interim guidance. NHS England’s new guidance reiterated that commissioners should plan to deliver autumn Covid vaccines ‘on a minimum scenario for cohorts 1-6 and a maximum scenario of cohorts 1-9 without disruption to core health and care services, subject to final JCVI advice’. It added: ‘New contracts and full details abo ... Date: 24-06-2022 Categories: • News
Pharmacy will go ‘backwards’ if it stays on its current funding deal, says PSNC chief executive ... on and smoking cessation services she explained. Covid impact Over the pandemic, many pharmacies have offered additional services such as Covid vaccines, flu vaccines and testing services which have helped provide some extra financial support and keep pharmacies afloat. As demand for these services begins to slow down, Ms Morrison expressed fears the full extent of the sec ... Date: 28-03-2022 Categories: • Interviews • News • Views
Over half of GPs do not think they should be ‘main providers’ of Covid vaccines ... inations’. Dr Leyla Hannbeck, chief executive of the Association of Independent Multiple pharmacies (AIMp) welcomed the suggestion of pharmacists offering more Covid vaccines. ‘AIMp has been pushing for the vaccination service to become the domain of community pharmacy since the start of the vaccination programme so that GPs can focus on handlining the backlog of patients caused by the ... Date: 15-03-2022 Categories: • News • Respiratory
Pharmacists can extend shelf life of Moderna vaccines ‘near expiry’ Pharmacy-led vaccination sites in England can extend the shelf life of specified batches of Moderna Covid vaccines that are nearing their expiry date, NHS England has said. In a letter sent to pharmacy and PCN-led vaccination sites this week (1 February), NHS England said that 20 batches of the vaccine – known ... Date: 03-02-2022 Categories: • News
Independent pharmacies deliver more Covid vaccines than multiples, says NPA Independent pharmacies have delivered more Covid vaccines than the pharmacy multiples, according to research by the National Pharmacy Association (NPA). Data released by the NPA and PharmData revealed 85% (521) of 610 pharmacy sites that administered va ... Date: 01-02-2022 Categories: • News
National vaccination service could be considered, says health secretary ... have that. ‘That can be an emergency response now, but in the future, we’ve got to have a national vaccination service that is able to deal with Covid vaccines as well as other vaccines without drawing in workforce from the rest of the NHS. ‘That’s one thing and the same applies, by the way, to making use of antivirals and testing and having a separate process to deal with that.’ Asked if the service ... Date: 27-01-2022 Categories: • News
London pharmacies administered over 5 million Covid vaccines last year Community pharmacies delivering the Covid vaccine in London administered over 5 million jabs last year, the latest figures from NHS England show. A year since the first Covid vaccine was given at a pharmacy, th ... Date: 21-01-2022 Categories: • News
Prime Minister visits Uxbridge pharmacy-led Covid vaccination hub ... and and Wales have been recruited to deliver the booster. In a statement published on their website, Boots said that this week marks one year since the multiple first began providing Covid vaccines. Nick Sunderland, Boots’ vaccination programme director said that the multiple was ‘so proud’ of its pharmacists who have worked ‘incredibly hard to support the national effort to accelerate t ... Date: 11-01-2022 Categories: • News
Exclusive: Pharmacies likely to be heavily involved in annual Covid booster programme ... to help the NHS and we do not want to detract them from doing that either,’ he added. As it stands, very few community pharmacies in Wales are administering the booster and most Covid vaccines are being delivered through hospitals and vaccine centers. However, The Pharmacist reported last week that more pharmacies in Wales may be used to deliver Covid boosters over the coming weeks to help meet the Gover ... Date: 16-12-2021 Categories: • News
Exclusive: More community pharmacies in Wales may deliver booster ... to deliver Covid boosters to help meet the Government's new vaccine targets, The Pharmacist has learned. As it stands, very few community pharmacies in Wales are administering the booster and most Covid vaccines are being delivered through hospitals and vaccine centers. However, according to a Welsh Government spokesperson today (14 December), health boards are working with all primary care contractors to ... Date: 14-12-2021 Categories: • News
Public health pharmacist wins pharmacist of the year award ... hard to tackle vaccine hesitancy in Hillingdon, which has a multi-ethnic population and high social deprivation; setting up a community vaccine hub where staff have administered Covid vaccines since December 2020. Mr Doshi also implemented an evidence-based weight management scheme in his borough, training staff to deliver a 12-week behavioral support programme. The scheme focuses on educating the patient on ... Date: 14-12-2021 Categories: • News
PM says pharmacists 'heroes’ of the Covid vaccine rollout ... acies this year while thanking pharmacists for their work over the pandemic and calling for people to get vaccinated. Last month, NHS England increased the standard payment for Covid vaccines to £15 per vaccination, in an effort to incentivise pharmacies and GP practices to offer all boosters by January. Standard Covid vaccines attract a payment of £15 until January, with an additional £5 payment for Sund ... Date: 09-12-2021 Categories: • News
Almost 300 additional pharmacies recruited to Covid vaccine programme ... ncluding prime minister Boris Johnson, to publicly receive a vaccine at a pharmacy-site this year. This month, NHS England increased the standard payment for Covid vaccines to £15 per vaccination, to incentivise pharmacies and GP practices to offer all boosters by January. Previously, the payment for pharmacies was £12.58 per vaccination. Meanwhile, eligibility fo ... Date: 06-12-2021 Categories: • News
Pfizer chief says annual Covid booster vaccines are likely ... major economy to transition from pandemic to endemic and have an annual vaccination programme,’ Mr Zahawi told The Sun. This month, NHS England increased the standard payment for Covid vaccines to £15 per vaccination, to incentivise pharmacies and GP practices to offer all boosters by January. The payment for standard Covid vaccines will now be £15 until January, with an additional £5 payment for Sunday v ... Date: 02-12-2021 Categories: • News • Respiratory
Fee for Covid jab increased to £15 in effort to offer all boosters by January NHS England has increased the standard payment for Covid vaccines to £15 per vaccination, in an effort to incentivise pharmacies and GP practices to offer all boosters by January. Standard Covid vaccines will now be £15 until January, with an additional £5 payme ... Date: 30-11-2021 Categories: • News • Respiratory
Calls for community pharmacies to help increase the rate of child Covid vaccination ... harmacy-led sites have been approved to vaccinate the cohort so far. In November, the shadow health secretary urged ministers to make greater use of community pharmacy to do more Covid vaccines to fix the ‘stalling’ booster vaccination programme. Speaking outside of Yakub’s Chemist in Leicester, Jonathan Ashworth, Leicester South MP, said that the Government needed to enlist ‘more’ community pharmacies to ... Date: 24-11-2021 Categories: • News • Respiratory
Government must use pharmacy ‘more’ in booster programme, says Ashworth The shadow health secretary is urging ministers to make greater use of community pharmacy to do more Covid vaccines to fix the ‘stalling’ booster vaccination programme. Speaking outside of Yakub’s Chemist in Leicester on Friday (29 October) Jonathan Ashworth, Leicester South MP, said that the Government ne ... Date: 01-11-2021 Categories: • News
Welsh pharmacies deliver 300k Covid vaccines Over 300,000 Covid vaccines have been delivered from community pharmacy-led vaccine sites in Wales, despite the Government continuing to focus most of its vaccine efforts through mass vaccination centres. Only 70 of the 716 ... Date: 28-10-2021 Categories: • News
More Covid booster jabs could be redirected to pharmacy ... ditions that make them vulnerable to Covid. It also includes adult household contacts of immunosuppressed individuals. In July, pharmacy sites that could administer 100 Covid vaccines per week were called forward to submit expressions of interest to deliver the booster. As of July, 688 pharmacies across England had been commissioned to administer the Covid vaccine. The Pharmacist has asked NHSE how man ... Date: 14-10-2021 Categories: • News
Pharmacists to take ‘lead role’ in delivering Covid vaccines in Northern Ireland Community pharmacists will now be taking the ‘lead role’ in administering first doses of Covid vaccines across Northern Ireland as part of a new phase of the programme, the health minister has said. Around 130 pharmacies across NI are now set up to provide the Moderna vaccine to any individuals over 18 ... Date: 05-10-2021 Categories: • News • Respiratory
Asda to offer booster jabs alongside flu vaccines in 72 stores ... HS vaccination. Since January, the retailer had operated three Covid vaccination centres in stores in Birmingham, Watford and London. These will continue to offer first and second Covid vaccines, as well as boosters, Asda confirmed. People in priority groups will be able to select Asda as the place to receive their booster when booking their jab. Faisal Tuddy, A ... Date: 04-10-2021 Categories: • News • Respiratory
MHRA green-lights Pfizer and AstraZeneca Covid vaccines for booster use The UK medicines regulator has approved the use of a third dose of both the Pfizer and AstraZeneca Covid vaccines ahead of an expected announcement about booster jabs. Both vaccines have been approved for the extra dose on an emergency use basis, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agen ... Date: 10-09-2021 Categories: • News
Vaccine delivery issues will not delay overall flu programme, says minister ... o-deliver flu and jabs and Covid boosters from this month. Mr Zahawi said the plan was still to co-administer the flu and Covid vaccines, adding: ‘The only caveat I would place on that is that the JCVI has given us only its interim advice on Covid. We are not yet there with the COV-Boost [study] data, which it will look at. It will give us its final advice on Covid. ‘If it chooses a vaccine that req ... Date: 08-09-2021 Categories: • News
UK trial launched to test third Covid jab in immunocompromised people ... cine response. We hope to provide answers to this very important unanswered question.’ This week, the UK Government announced an order of a further 35 million Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccines due to arrive from the second half of next year, which could be used for potential future booster programmes. A version of this story first appeared on our sister title, Pulse. Date: 27-08-2021 Categories: • Clinical • News • Respiratory • Vaccinations and infections
Moderna vaccine approved for 12- to 17-year-olds ... id-19 vaccines and this surveillance will include the 12- to 17-year age group.’ It comes after a Public Health England funded study found that two doses of the Pfizer or AstraZeneca Covid vaccines are necessary for good protection against the delta variant. The research, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, reported that a two-dose regimen of the Pfizer vaccine was 88% effective against ... Date: 17-08-2021 Categories: • Clinical • News • Respiratory

Government confirms Covid vaccine eligibility for spring 2025 programme ... on (JCVI) said both the spring and autumn Covid vaccine campaigns in 2025 should be narrowed as the disease becomes endemic. A smaller cohort had also been eligible in spring 2024. This autumn, Covid vaccines were available for free for those aged 65 to 75 years and those who were previously deemed to be in a clinical risk group, however this will not be the case in spring 2025. The latest JCVI update ... Date: 16-12-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Vaccinations and infections

NHSE urged to commission pharmacy vaccinations ... dded barriers to accessing care. Pharmacies effective in reaching patients from minority ethnic backgrounds The CCA's report, published today, noted that in 2021, over a third of community pharmacy Covid vaccines were provided in the 20% most deprived communities. And more than half of those given to people from a Black/Black British, Asian/Asian British, Chinese, mixed or other ethnic background in spring ... Date: 27-11-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Vaccinations and infections

Covid vaccine eligibility should shrink next year as disease becomes endemic, says JCVI ... ring and autumn Covid vaccine campaigns in 2025 should be restricted to the over-75s, residents of a care home for older adults and those six months and over who are immunosuppressed. This autumn, Covid vaccines are available for free for those aged 65 to 75 years and those who were previously deemed to be in a clinical risk group, however this will not be the case in neither spring nor autumn in 2025. A ... Date: 15-11-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • In Practice • News • Respiratory • Vaccinations and infections

New process for contractors looking to provide off-site Covid vaccines Contractors interested in running a Covid-19 vaccination site away from their pharmacy should check NHS England (NHSE) websites ‘regularly’ as more opportunities are commissioned, Community Pharmacy England (CPE) h ... Date: 15-07-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Respiratory • Vaccinations and infections

Quarter of all Covid vaccines administered in community pharmacies Almost two-thirds (62%) of Covid-19 vaccines were administered in community pharmacies in December 2023, according to the Company Chemists’ Association (CCA). The CCA’s analysis, based on data from NHS England a ... Date: 15-02-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Vaccinations and infections

Covid-19 vaccine contract extensions to carry added spring payment ... macies a patient group direction package that could see them delivering private Covid vaccinations ‘within weeks’. Boots and Superdrug are also looking into private provision of Covid vaccines. Date: 05-02-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Respiratory • Vaccinations and infections

Pharmacies to deliver first private Covid vaccinations ... appointment with pharmacies using the Pharmadoctor service through a patient website. The Pharmadoctor package will include consultation software and integrated PGDs for all licensed private Covid vaccines as they become available, the company said. And the jabs will cost patients £45, Pharmadoctor added. Vaccine stock will be available by 1 April and the package will be available at half-price – £249. ... Date: 01-02-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Respiratory • Vaccinations and infections

Covid undervaccination led to thousands of deaths in UK ... ltant in infectious diseases and vaccine clinical trials at Cardiff University School of Medicine, said the study ‘clearly demonstrates how effective Covid vaccines were at reducing the risk of severe outcomes’ from the disease during summer 2022. He said: ‘As the authors point out, these findings will help identify which groups should in future be specifically targeted to maximise uptake of vaccines for Cov ... Date: 23-01-2024 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Vaccinations and infections

DHSC ‘in talks’ over private sale of Covid vaccines ... of Covid vaccinations, meaning manufacturers were free to agree deals with pharmacies to supply them. The NHSE vaccination strategy, published last week, noted that the private sale of Covid vaccines would be in line with other vaccines approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) that are currently sold privately, including those for flu, and ‘would not influence the scope or s ... Date: 18-12-2023 Categories: • Clinical • News • Vaccinations and infections

Nearly half of Covid vaccinations this year delivered by community pharmacists Community pharmacies have provided more than two million Covid vaccines in England so far in 2023 – representing almost half (46%) of all Covid vaccinations administered this year. The analysis by the Company Chemists’ Association (CCA), also show that to date, commun ... Date: 24-10-2023 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Vaccinations and infections

Limiting Covid boosters to the over-80s would be more cost-effective ... 13,990 hospitalisations if the more restricted cohorts had been chosen. A pre-print of a study from the UK Health Security Agency also published this week on the impact of two Covid vaccines used in the spring booster campaign found around a 50% effectiveness against hospitalisation above any remaining protection from previous vaccination. Researchers compared the Pfizer/BioNTech bivalent vaccine and the ... Date: 11-10-2023 Categories: • Clinical • Community • News • Vaccinations and infections

UKHSA: No blanket restriction on private Covid vaccines The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has confirmed that it has not placed any restriction on the private sale of Covid vaccinations, meaning that manufacturers could agree deals with pharmacies to supply them. ... Date: 21-08-2023 Categories: • Clinical • News • Vaccinations and infections

Pharmacy sector considers next steps amid flu vaccination change ... ‘total disrespect to the already overstretched pharmacy teams who need time to plan’. ‘If they’ve discovered that it’s better to co administer the flu and Covid vaccines at the same time then they should communicate that earlier, not at the last hour,’ she added. Following NHSE’s announcement that pharmacies would be able to submit payment claims for already booked flu vaccinations delivered in September, ... Date: 11-08-2023 Categories: • Clinical • News • Vaccinations and infections

Government proposes to extend pandemic vaccination regulations ... s as the country transitions out of the pandemic. These regulations have: enabled trained healthcare professionals to conduct the final stage of assembly, preparation, and labelling of Covid vaccines without additional marketing authorisations or manufacturer’s licences being required; allowed Covid and flu vaccines to be moved between premises at the end of the supply chain, by providers operati ... Date: 11-08-2023 Categories: • Clinical • News • Vaccinations and infections

JCVI recommends autumn Covid booster for over-65s and clinically vulnerable ... macists were told that they would be paid 25% less than last year for delivering the Covid-19 vaccination. NHS England has published the new enhanced service specification for Covid vaccines to be delivered between 1 September and 31 March next year, setting out that pharmacists will be paid £7.54 for each vaccine administered – down from £10.06 – and continue to be paid £10 for each housebound patient. I ... Date: 08-08-2023 Categories: • Clinical • News • Vaccinations and infections

Probe into UKHSA finds weak financial controls and 'alarming' lack of pandemic planning ... loy an approved Covid vaccine, with 144 million doses administered, and we have delivered over 25 billion items of PPE to the frontline. Buying vital Covid vaccines and medicines saved countless lives and kept NHS and care staff safe.' Dame Jenny Harries, Chief Executive of the UK Health Security Agency, said: 'We have always taken our accounts and financial controls very seriously. The UKHSA was created in ... Date: 05-07-2023 Categories: • News

Parents are confident in vaccines, but prefer to go to the GP for them, survey finds ... tank Policy Exchange recently recommended that all adult vaccinations in England be delivered through community pharmacies in England. Some community pharmacies are accredited to offer Covid vaccines for children, and some pharmacies in London offered the polio vaccination last year. Date: 07-02-2023 Categories: • News

People urged to book Covid boosters in final week ... n 2023 in favour of a more targeted approach. The health service is prepared to stand up future campaigns once JCVI advice is given and confirmed by the government on who will be eligible for Covid vaccines in future phases of the programme. Date: 06-02-2023 Categories: • Clinical • News • Respiratory

One in ten ‘bored of hearing about vaccines’, UK survey finds ... survey found that 14% of people are bored of hearing about vaccines. In its poll of 2,000 people across the UK last month, 38% of respondents said that they were grateful to have access to flu and Covid vaccines, while 25% felt that there was a sense of ‘vaccine fatigue’ following several Covid jabs over the last few years. The BMJ predicted that this winter could be worse than usual, due to reduced immun ... Date: 23-11-2022 Categories: • News

Covid antivirals could be supplied through community pharmacies ... ociation, which represents medicines suppliers, said that the Act recorded in legislation what has already been happening since the first Covid-19 vaccines were developed. In the UK, Covid vaccines for use in primary care are purchased by the NHS directly from manufacturers. In England, they are then sent to wholesaler-run storage hubs and distributed by suppliers to vaccine sites around the country, includi ... Date: 14-11-2022 Categories: • News

Pregnant women targeted with Covid vaccine misinformation ... roups who should be prioritised, including for boosters. A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social Care said: ‘The government, clinical and independent advice has not changed – Covid vaccines are safe and highly effective both for pregnant women and for those who are breastfeeding. ‘This is backed by extensive real-world data, including global analysis outside of clinical trials and in health ... Date: 06-09-2022 Categories: • Vaccinations and infections

Dual-variant Covid jab to be used in booster campaign from 5 September ... ofessional bodies on options to support providers in prioritising the completion of vaccinations in care homes as early as possible’. Opportunities to co-administer flu and Covid vaccines ‘should not unduly delay administration of either jab’ in care homes and for the housebound, it added. The letter said NHS England expects ‘all sites to be vaccinating at full operational capacity from 19 September’ and ... Date: 19-08-2022 Categories: • News

Timely Covid booster more important than type of vaccine, says government ... th four jabs now on offer. The Government yesterday accepted JCVI advice for Moderna’s updated Omicron vaccine to be offered as part of the programme. But the JCVI’s full advice on which Covid vaccines should be used in the booster campaign also includes the original Moderna and Pfizer jabs, as well as the Novavax vaccine. The three mRNA vaccine types should be prioritised but Novavax can be used off-l ... Date: 17-08-2022 Categories: • Vaccinations and infections

Three months on: How pharmacies are dealing with the cost-of-living crisis ... give Covid vaccines pharmacy staff require an additional set of skills than providing other vaccines, which should be reflected in the price,’ she adds. ‘Many pharmacies are still heavily banking on the cash flow from this service to staff afloat while we have no uplift from the contract, this is going to make life that little bit harder for them,’ she also explains. Date: 05-07-2022 Categories: • News

Covid vaccines prevented almost 20 million deaths in first year Covid-19 vaccines prevented almost 20 million deaths globally in the first year they were available, a mathematical modelling study finds. Using Covid-19 death records and total excess deaths from 185 countries ... Date: 29-06-2022 Categories: • Vaccinations and infections

NHS England sets out preliminary plans for autumn Covid boosters ... ccine for some at-risk groups and frontline health and social care workers, under interim guidance. NHS England’s new guidance reiterated that commissioners should plan to deliver autumn Covid vaccines ‘on a minimum scenario for cohorts 1-6 and a maximum scenario of cohorts 1-9 without disruption to core health and care services, subject to final JCVI advice’. It added: ‘New contracts and full details abo ... Date: 24-06-2022 Categories: • News

Pharmacy will go ‘backwards’ if it stays on its current funding deal, says PSNC chief executive ... on and smoking cessation services she explained. Covid impact Over the pandemic, many pharmacies have offered additional services such as Covid vaccines, flu vaccines and testing services which have helped provide some extra financial support and keep pharmacies afloat. As demand for these services begins to slow down, Ms Morrison expressed fears the full extent of the sec ... Date: 28-03-2022 Categories: • Interviews • News • Views

Over half of GPs do not think they should be ‘main providers’ of Covid vaccines ... inations’. Dr Leyla Hannbeck, chief executive of the Association of Independent Multiple pharmacies (AIMp) welcomed the suggestion of pharmacists offering more Covid vaccines. ‘AIMp has been pushing for the vaccination service to become the domain of community pharmacy since the start of the vaccination programme so that GPs can focus on handlining the backlog of patients caused by the ... Date: 15-03-2022 Categories: • News • Respiratory

Pharmacists can extend shelf life of Moderna vaccines ‘near expiry’ Pharmacy-led vaccination sites in England can extend the shelf life of specified batches of Moderna Covid vaccines that are nearing their expiry date, NHS England has said. In a letter sent to pharmacy and PCN-led vaccination sites this week (1 February), NHS England said that 20 batches of the vaccine – known ... Date: 03-02-2022 Categories: • News

Independent pharmacies deliver more Covid vaccines than multiples, says NPA Independent pharmacies have delivered more Covid vaccines than the pharmacy multiples, according to research by the National Pharmacy Association (NPA). Data released by the NPA and PharmData revealed 85% (521) of 610 pharmacy sites that administered va ... Date: 01-02-2022 Categories: • News

National vaccination service could be considered, says health secretary ... have that. ‘That can be an emergency response now, but in the future, we’ve got to have a national vaccination service that is able to deal with Covid vaccines as well as other vaccines without drawing in workforce from the rest of the NHS. ‘That’s one thing and the same applies, by the way, to making use of antivirals and testing and having a separate process to deal with that.’ Asked if the service ... Date: 27-01-2022 Categories: • News

London pharmacies administered over 5 million Covid vaccines last year Community pharmacies delivering the Covid vaccine in London administered over 5 million jabs last year, the latest figures from NHS England show. A year since the first Covid vaccine was given at a pharmacy, th ... Date: 21-01-2022 Categories: • News

Prime Minister visits Uxbridge pharmacy-led Covid vaccination hub ... and and Wales have been recruited to deliver the booster. In a statement published on their website, Boots said that this week marks one year since the multiple first began providing Covid vaccines. Nick Sunderland, Boots’ vaccination programme director said that the multiple was ‘so proud’ of its pharmacists who have worked ‘incredibly hard to support the national effort to accelerate t ... Date: 11-01-2022 Categories: • News

Exclusive: Pharmacies likely to be heavily involved in annual Covid booster programme ... to help the NHS and we do not want to detract them from doing that either,’ he added. As it stands, very few community pharmacies in Wales are administering the booster and most Covid vaccines are being delivered through hospitals and vaccine centers. However, The Pharmacist reported last week that more pharmacies in Wales may be used to deliver Covid boosters over the coming weeks to help meet the Gover ... Date: 16-12-2021 Categories: • News

Exclusive: More community pharmacies in Wales may deliver booster ... to deliver Covid boosters to help meet the Government's new vaccine targets, The Pharmacist has learned. As it stands, very few community pharmacies in Wales are administering the booster and most Covid vaccines are being delivered through hospitals and vaccine centers. However, according to a Welsh Government spokesperson today (14 December), health boards are working with all primary care contractors to ... Date: 14-12-2021 Categories: • News

Public health pharmacist wins pharmacist of the year award ... hard to tackle vaccine hesitancy in Hillingdon, which has a multi-ethnic population and high social deprivation; setting up a community vaccine hub where staff have administered Covid vaccines since December 2020. Mr Doshi also implemented an evidence-based weight management scheme in his borough, training staff to deliver a 12-week behavioral support programme. The scheme focuses on educating the patient on ... Date: 14-12-2021 Categories: • News

PM says pharmacists 'heroes’ of the Covid vaccine rollout ... acies this year while thanking pharmacists for their work over the pandemic and calling for people to get vaccinated. Last month, NHS England increased the standard payment for Covid vaccines to £15 per vaccination, in an effort to incentivise pharmacies and GP practices to offer all boosters by January. Standard Covid vaccines attract a payment of £15 until January, with an additional £5 payment for Sund ... Date: 09-12-2021 Categories: • News

Almost 300 additional pharmacies recruited to Covid vaccine programme ... ncluding prime minister Boris Johnson, to publicly receive a vaccine at a pharmacy-site this year. This month, NHS England increased the standard payment for Covid vaccines to £15 per vaccination, to incentivise pharmacies and GP practices to offer all boosters by January. Previously, the payment for pharmacies was £12.58 per vaccination. Meanwhile, eligibility fo ... Date: 06-12-2021 Categories: • News

Pfizer chief says annual Covid booster vaccines are likely ... major economy to transition from pandemic to endemic and have an annual vaccination programme,’ Mr Zahawi told The Sun. This month, NHS England increased the standard payment for Covid vaccines to £15 per vaccination, to incentivise pharmacies and GP practices to offer all boosters by January. The payment for standard Covid vaccines will now be £15 until January, with an additional £5 payment for Sunday v ... Date: 02-12-2021 Categories: • News • Respiratory

Fee for Covid jab increased to £15 in effort to offer all boosters by January NHS England has increased the standard payment for Covid vaccines to £15 per vaccination, in an effort to incentivise pharmacies and GP practices to offer all boosters by January. Standard Covid vaccines will now be £15 until January, with an additional £5 payme ... Date: 30-11-2021 Categories: • News • Respiratory

Calls for community pharmacies to help increase the rate of child Covid vaccination ... harmacy-led sites have been approved to vaccinate the cohort so far. In November, the shadow health secretary urged ministers to make greater use of community pharmacy to do more Covid vaccines to fix the ‘stalling’ booster vaccination programme. Speaking outside of Yakub’s Chemist in Leicester, Jonathan Ashworth, Leicester South MP, said that the Government needed to enlist ‘more’ community pharmacies to ... Date: 24-11-2021 Categories: • News • Respiratory

Government must use pharmacy ‘more’ in booster programme, says Ashworth The shadow health secretary is urging ministers to make greater use of community pharmacy to do more Covid vaccines to fix the ‘stalling’ booster vaccination programme. Speaking outside of Yakub’s Chemist in Leicester on Friday (29 October) Jonathan Ashworth, Leicester South MP, said that the Government ne ... Date: 01-11-2021 Categories: • News

Welsh pharmacies deliver 300k Covid vaccines Over 300,000 Covid vaccines have been delivered from community pharmacy-led vaccine sites in Wales, despite the Government continuing to focus most of its vaccine efforts through mass vaccination centres. Only 70 of the 716 ... Date: 28-10-2021 Categories: • News

More Covid booster jabs could be redirected to pharmacy ... ditions that make them vulnerable to Covid. It also includes adult household contacts of immunosuppressed individuals. In July, pharmacy sites that could administer 100 Covid vaccines per week were called forward to submit expressions of interest to deliver the booster. As of July, 688 pharmacies across England had been commissioned to administer the Covid vaccine. The Pharmacist has asked NHSE how man ... Date: 14-10-2021 Categories: • News

Pharmacists to take ‘lead role’ in delivering Covid vaccines in Northern Ireland Community pharmacists will now be taking the ‘lead role’ in administering first doses of Covid vaccines across Northern Ireland as part of a new phase of the programme, the health minister has said. Around 130 pharmacies across NI are now set up to provide the Moderna vaccine to any individuals over 18 ... Date: 05-10-2021 Categories: • News • Respiratory

Asda to offer booster jabs alongside flu vaccines in 72 stores ... HS vaccination. Since January, the retailer had operated three Covid vaccination centres in stores in Birmingham, Watford and London. These will continue to offer first and second Covid vaccines, as well as boosters, Asda confirmed. People in priority groups will be able to select Asda as the place to receive their booster when booking their jab. Faisal Tuddy, A ... Date: 04-10-2021 Categories: • News • Respiratory

MHRA green-lights Pfizer and AstraZeneca Covid vaccines for booster use The UK medicines regulator has approved the use of a third dose of both the Pfizer and AstraZeneca Covid vaccines ahead of an expected announcement about booster jabs. Both vaccines have been approved for the extra dose on an emergency use basis, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agen ... Date: 10-09-2021 Categories: • News

Vaccine delivery issues will not delay overall flu programme, says minister ... o-deliver flu and jabs and Covid boosters from this month. Mr Zahawi said the plan was still to co-administer the flu and Covid vaccines, adding: ‘The only caveat I would place on that is that the JCVI has given us only its interim advice on Covid. We are not yet there with the COV-Boost [study] data, which it will look at. It will give us its final advice on Covid. ‘If it chooses a vaccine that req ... Date: 08-09-2021 Categories: • News

UK trial launched to test third Covid jab in immunocompromised people ... cine response. We hope to provide answers to this very important unanswered question.’ This week, the UK Government announced an order of a further 35 million Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccines due to arrive from the second half of next year, which could be used for potential future booster programmes. A version of this story first appeared on our sister title, Pulse. Date: 27-08-2021 Categories: • Clinical • News • Respiratory • Vaccinations and infections

Moderna vaccine approved for 12- to 17-year-olds ... id-19 vaccines and this surveillance will include the 12- to 17-year age group.’ It comes after a Public Health England funded study found that two doses of the Pfizer or AstraZeneca Covid vaccines are necessary for good protection against the delta variant. The research, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, reported that a two-dose regimen of the Pfizer vaccine was 88% effective against ... Date: 17-08-2021 Categories: • Clinical • News • Respiratory

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