Covid, Covid-Booster Vaccine & Update of Vaccine Records

Overseas Vaccination Record Validation Service

From 9th December the public is now able to book a face to face appointment at selected sites across the country using this link.

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To have their overseas vaccination records validated and recorded. Ensuring overseas vaccinations are recorded in NIMS will enable patients to be invited for any subsequent doses for which they are eligible, and will also help patients access the NHS COVID Pass.

The launch of this service will supplement the Vaccine Data Resolution Service (VDRS) to ‘Tell the NHS about coronavirus vaccinations abroad’ and resolve issues of missing records into the National Immunisation Management System (NIMS).

Appointments are booked and managed through the National Booking Service on the NHS website or by calling 119.

The new service will capture evidence of COVID-19 vaccinations administered in countries outside of England and have these recorded in the National Immunisation Management System (NIMS). This system securely holds vaccination information to support health and care, and ensures that accurate information is available in the right place at the right time.

  *   To be eligible to use the service people must:

     *   have received one of the four MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) approved for use in England vaccine types: AstraZeneca (Vaxzevria) / Pfizer/BioNTech (Comirnaty) / Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) / or Moderna (Spikevax).
     *   be aged 18 or over
     *   have an NHS number
     *   be able to attend the face to face appointment with photographic ID (Passport or UK Driving Licence) and evidence of their vaccination record. The documentation required for the appointment is detailed in the NBS booking page and in the Overseas Service Standard Operating Procedure available on FutureNHS https://future.nhs.uk/COVID19VaccinationCentres/view?objectId=32198416

How to book your Covid-Booster appointment

You can book using the details below. Alternatively, you may be able to have your vaccine with a local NHS service that is not available using these details, such as your local GP practice. If you would prefer to be vaccinated via that route, please wait for the service to contact you.

To book online:

Walk in Clinic for Vaccine, Please click here

To book on the phone:

If you cannot book your appointment online, phone 119 free of charge, 7am to 11pm, 7 days a week. You can ask someone else to do this for you. Please let us know if you need an interpreter.You can use text phone 18001 119 or the NHS British Sign Language interpreter service at https://www.interpreternow.co.uk/nhs119

You will be able to book an appointment to take place from 182 days (6 months) after your second dose. This is in line with guidance from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).

Please note that 119 call agents can only see the same appointments as are available on the NHS website. No additional appointments are available by calling 119.

Alternatively, you can get your booster vaccine through a COVID-19 vaccine walk-in service without needing an appointment. Find out which walk-in services are offering a booster vaccine near you at https://www.nhs.uk/grab-a-jab. Please note that if you choose to attend a walk-in service, it must be at least 182 days (6 months) since your second dose for you to be vaccinated.

About the COVID-19 booster vaccine

More information on the vaccine is available at https://www.nhs.uk/covid-booster

The vaccine is only available from the NHS and is free of charge. The NHS will never ask you for your bank account details or to pay for the vaccine.

We may also give you a phone call (from 0300 561 0240) and a text message from ‘NHSvaccine’ reminding you to book. Local GP services may also send you separate text messages.

Flu vaccine

In addition to receiving the COVID-19 booster vaccine, it is also very important that you have the flu vaccine to ensure you are protected against both viruses. Please note that you cannot book your flu vaccine using the details in this email. For details on how to book your flu vaccine, please visit https://www.nhs.uk/fluvaccine.

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CCG COVID and Vaccination Primary Care Briefing

  1. AZ vaccine manufactured in India – additional information from DHSC

Following on from the additional queries raised around the AZ vaccine that has been manufactured in India, we have been in touch with DHSC (who are leading on this piece of work) again. They have now provided us with the following additional lines regarding this issue:

  • All AstraZeneca vaccines given in the UK are the same product and appear on the NHS COVID Pass as Vaxzevria.
  • The European Medicines Agency, as well as our own medicines regulator, has authorised this vaccine and travel should not be affected.
  • No Covishield vaccines have been administered in the UK.
  • All doses used in the UK have been subject to rigorous safety and quality checks, including individual batch testing and physical site inspections, by the UK medicine’s regulator, the MHRA.
  • Ensuring safe and open travel with our global partners is a clear priority and we are engaging with international partners on certification to ensure travel for vaccinated people is unhindered in the future.
  • We have spoken to the EU Commission who have confirmed that neither the Commission nor the EMA has advised Member States against accepting travellers vaccinated with ‘SII doses’.
  • Our High Commission in Malta has been discussing this issue with the Maltese Government, who have agreed that they will accept the NHS certificate with the EMA approved AZ Vaxzevria dose.
  • Astra Zeneca vaccine will be recognised in the same way as any other. 

On the stories specifically about Malta last week:

Gill French
Integrated South East RVOC (Regional Vaccine Operations Cell) and Incident Coordination Centre (South East)
NHS England and NHS Improvement 

The JCVI recently published a statement on the vaccination of children on 19 July 2021, and NHSE subsequently published a letter dated 22 July 2021 to GPs and systems.

The SVOC Covid-19 team have advised that one of the implications of this guidance is that clinicians who are vaccinating children need to be appropriately trained in Basic Life Support (BLS) for paediatrics and anaphylaxis management, which currently is not a requirement of the clinical workforce, so not all vaccinators would have the training and competences to vaccinate under 18s.

For those sites ONLY with clinicians who have appropriate specified paediatric training:

The General Practice Enhanced Service Specification for phase 1 and 2 of the COVID-19 vaccination programme has been amended to enable PCN groupings (who are delivering COVID-19 vaccinations to cohorts 10-12) to immediately vaccinate eligible patients who are 17 years of age and within three months of their 18th birthday. The updated specification can be found here.

NHSE will publish further information about the implementation of the JCVI’s advice on the vaccination of 12-15 year olds with specific underlying health conditions that put them at risk of serious COVID-19. It is important that PCN Groupings do not begin to vaccinate eligible 12-15 year olds until we have confirmed details and revised the service specification, because such vaccinations may not be covered by the general practice indemnity scheme.

Primary Care Team NHS Buckinghamshire CCG

 

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