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.