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.