Childhood 6-in-1 Vaccination Programme
Background
This service is for the following patient groups receiving the Hexavalent DTaP/IPV/Hib/HepB vaccination:
Children aged 8 weeks who have not yet attained 10 years old:
Each 6-in-1 vaccine delivered to a child in this cohort will accrue an item of service fee.
Children aged 3 years 4 months who have not yet attained 10 years old:
Each DTaP/IPV or dTaP/IPV vaccine delivered to a child in this cohort will accrue an item of service fee.
Patients aged 10 years and over:
GP practices, who vaccinate patients from 10 years old and over, who present with incomplete or uncertain vaccination history, can claim reimbursement of an IoS fee.
This collection is not a proxy for appropriate clinical delivery and should be used just for payment purposes.
Purpose and outline
The purpose is to calculate, report and pay for activity undertaken in line with contractual agreement.
How this service is commissioned and provided
NHS England Regional team commissions this service from GP practices.
NHS England service specifications
NHS Employers Vaccination and Immunisation requirements
2022/25: Information about this service
Quality service start date: 1 April 2022
Quality service end date: 31 March 2025
Payment period: Monthly
Collection frequency: Monthly
Manual or automatic entry: Automatic data collection
Included in data collection: All GP system suppliers
Classification: Vaccination and Immunisation programme
Service user guides
The Calculating Quality Reporting Service (CQRS) user guides describe how to participate, manually enter and declare achievement for this service. Activity and achievement should be recorded monthly.
NHS England, guidance, and technical requirements will be published here: https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/gp-contract/
The legal documents (Regulations, DES Directions, and the Statement of Financial Entitlements) underpinning the GMS contract for [year] can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/gp-contract-directions-2019-to-2020
The requirements for this Service are covered by the SFE.
Payment count/clinical codes
Commissioners and practice should refer to our supporting business rules for information on management information counts and clinical codes.
Further information to support users can be found on the SNOMED CT Implementation in Primary Care site , including Codes to support Technical Requirements 18-19 – a document providing appropriate Read v2 and CTV3 codes for SNOMED CT concept ID.