Hepatitis B (Newborn Babies) Vaccination Programme
Background
Babies whose mother has Hepatitis B are at increased risk of contracting the disease. This programme is intended to identify these newborn babies and ensure they receive vaccination at birth (in hospital or during home births and by GP’s by exception), the second dose at 1 month and a completing dose at the age of 1 year.
GP practices are required to carry out a heel prick test and update the infant’s records with the result of the test to confirm whether the baby is positive for Hepatitis B infection.
In addition, where the vaccine status of a baby is incomplete or there has been significant delay, practices may opportunistically complete the administration of the required doses as clinically appropriate and claim for payment. This means there is no end date for when the vaccine might be delivered.
Practices must claim within 6 months of the vaccination in line with the SFE.
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
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 (V&I)
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.
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.