Childhood Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Programme (Two and Three Year Olds)
Background
In 2012, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) recommended the seasonal influenza programme be extended to all children aged 2 to under 17. The roll-out of this extended programme is being phased in over a period of time, to ensure a manageable and successful implementation process.
This enhanced service, delivered by GP practices, offers vaccination to all children aged two and three years. GP practices should offer vaccination, using the recommended vaccine, to all children aged two and three, but not children aged four years on 31 August 2022.
Four year olds have been removed from the enhanced service and transferred to school’s programme.
Purpose and outline
The influenza immunisation programmes are to protect those who are most at risk of serious illness should they develop influenza and to reduce transmission of the infection, thereby contributing to the protection of vulnerable patients who may have a suboptimal response to their own immunisations. In order to reduce the impact of influenza on children and lower influenza transmission to other children, adults and those in clinical risk groups of any age, GP practices are required to proactively identify all those for whom influenza immunisations are indicated and to compile a register of those patients for whom influenza immunisation is recommended.GP practices will receive an item of service (IoS) payment of £10.06 per dose in respect of each registered patient who is aged 2 and 3 years of age (but not aged less than 2 or aged four or over on 31 August 2023) who is vaccinated using the recommended vaccine from 1 September 2023 to 31 March 2024.
How this service is commissioned and provided
Regional Local Offices commission this service from GP practices.
NHS England service specifications
2023/24: Information about this service
Quality service start date: 01 September 2023
Quality service end date: 31 March 2024
Payment period: Monthly
Collection frequency: Monthly
Manual or automatic entry: Automatic data collection
Included in data collection: All system suppliers (TPP, Cegedim 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.