These webpages are primarily directed at health care professionals delivering the vaccination services that we commission. If you are a member of the public seeking information about NHS screening or immunisation programmes please go to the NHS website or speak to your GP, practice nurse or other health care professional.

The purpose of this webpage is to make information more easily accessible to primary care professionals who provide immunisation services. Comprehensive information for all national screening and immunisation programmes is available on Population screening programmes: detailed information – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) and Health Security Agency website.

PLEASE ENSURE GUIDANCE IS ACCESSED THROUGH THE LINKS PROVIDED. ANY ITEMS PRINTED MAY QUICKLY BECOME OUT OF DATE******************************************

Links to the commonly used sites for vaccination information are below:

• The Green Book
• The complete routine schedule
• Routine childhood immunisation schedule
• Vaccination of individuals with uncertain or incomplete immunisation status [new version available from 1 September 2023]
• International versus UK vaccination schedule
• WHO immunisation data portal

NEW ****** Please note ordering for Zostavax stock from Immform has now closed – Please use existing stock for those eligible cohorts****** (updated 8.9.23)

• Shingles Programme Changes 2023
• Shingles Eligibility Calculator – From September 2023
• HPV Programme Changes 2023
• Covid-19 Autumn programme 2023

Annual flu programme – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Vaccine programme specific health care practitioner guidance:

• Covid-19
• Hexavalent
• Human PapillomaVirus infection (HPV)
• MenACWY
• Meningococcal B
• Pneumococcal (Infant)
• Rotavirus
• Shingles

Training Resources

Training standards information for vaccination programmes are as below:

• Immunisation training standards for health care practitioners
• Immunisation training of healthcare support workers: national minimum standards and core curriculum – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

UKHSA publish regular UK vaccination updates

• UKHSA Vaccine Updates