PCV Hib/Men C Vaccination Programme

Background

This vaccine boosts protection against Hib disease and protects against meningococcal disease caused by type C Neisseria meningitidis bacteria. It is given at 12-13 months in the UK schedule. The Hib/MenC vaccine was introduced in 2006 as a result of studies which showed that protection against Hib provided by the 5-in-1 vaccine given in the first year waned during the second year of life. It is a combination vaccine, which reduces the number of injections a child needs.

This childhood vaccination programme commissioned from GP practices. Currently there is no standard payment tool to support this programme and therefore has previously required local solutions which puts additional workload burdens on both the GP practice and NHS england local teams.

By creating a manual payment portal on CQRS, we provide a single national solution that will reduce the burden and deliver a solution which links to the national payment solutions.

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

This is a GMS contract additional service included in the core GP contract.

The requirements for this programme are set out in the Statement of Financial Entitlements: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-primary-medical-services-directions-2013

Clinical guidance can be found in the relevant chapter of the Green Book: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immunisation-against-infectious-disease-the-green-book

    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
    • System type: Vaccination and Immunisation programme

    To access this service on CQRS, please check that you have access to the correct service type. In CQRS, select ‘My Account’ from the top of the page to see a full list of all viewable services. If you do not have access to this type of service, ask your user administrator to update your profile.

    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.

    Your Regional Local Offices (RLO) have the option of using CQRS to manage this service or to continue to use local process. If your RLO decides to administer the service via CQRS, your practice will receive an offer message through CQRS.

    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.