MMR Vaccination Programme

Background

We require an automated payment service for the following patient groups receiving MMR vaccination:

  • Children 0-5 years
  • Children 6-15 years
  • Adults 16 years and over
  • Children aged 0-5 years

Each MMR vaccine delivered to a child in this cohort will accrue an item of service fee of £10.06. We will also require an end of year count to evaluate cohort coverage in those aged 2 years and those aged 5 years.

Children aged 6-15 years

Each MMR vaccine delivered to a child in this cohort will accrue an item of service fee of £10.06.

Adults aged 16 years and over

GP practices who vaccinate patients at the age of 16 and over who were previously unvaccinated, can claim reimbursement of an IoS fee of £10.06. Practices are only paid for vaccinations carried out by the practice, not for those given by other providers.

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.

Meningococcal ACWY (MenACWY) Vaccination Programme

Purpose and outline

The purpose of the service is to enable NHS England to commission MenACWY immunisation services of sufficient quantity and quality to prevent the infections and outbreaks caused by these organisms.

The JCVI advised that there was an outbreak of Meningococcal W in 2016 and a vaccination programme of all 14-18 year old patients was agreed. To achieve this the completing dose and those aged 18 years on 31 August programmes have now been combined in to one programme for those who attained the age of 14 years but not yet attained 25 years who have not been vaccinated under the schools programme.

The conjugate vaccine (ACWY) will be provided by central supply for all patients in this cohort.

How this service is commissioned and provided

Regions commission this service from GP practices.

NHS England service specifications

2025/28: Information about this service

  • Quality service start date: 1 April 2025
  • Quality service end date: 31 March 2028
  • Payment period: Monthly
  • Collection frequency: Monthly
  • Manual or automatic entry: Automatic
  • Included in data collection: All system suppliers (TPP, Medicus and EMIS)
  • System type: Vaccination and Immunisation (V&I)

Service user guides

The Calculating Quality Reporting Service (CQRS) user guides describe how to participate, manually enter and declare achievement for this service.

Meningococcal B (MenB) Infant Vaccination Programme

Purpose and outline

This service enables NHS England to commission MenB immunisation services to effectively prevent infections and outbreaks caused by meningococcal bacteria.

This routine immunisation programme consists of a three-dose schedule: the primary course includes two doses at 2 and 4 months, to ensure optimum protection for babies before the peak incidence at five months and a booster dose at 12 to 13 months providing long term protection.

Practices are only paid for vaccinations administered by the practice not for those given by other healthcare providers.

How this service is commissioned and provided

Regions commission this service from GP practices.

NHS England service specifications

2025/28: Information about this service

  • Quality service start date: 1 April 2025
  • Quality service end date: 31 March 2028
  • Payment period: Monthly
  • Collection frequency: Monthly
  • Manual or automatic entry: Automatic data collection
  • Included in data collection: All system suppliers (TPP, Medicus and Emis)
  • System type: Vaccination and Immunisation (V&I)

Service user guides

The Calculating Quality Reporting Service (CQRS) user guides describe how to participate, manually enter and declare achievement for this service.