Childhood 6-in-1 Vaccination Programme

Purpose and outline

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.

How this service is commissioned and provided

Regions commission this service for 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. Activity and achievement should be recorded monthly.

Page updated: 19 February 2025