Named Immunisation Lead

It is a contractual requirement for every GP practice to have a named immunisation lead to take responsibility for oversight of immunisation services at your practice. Having an active Immunisation lead is recognised as an essential element of improving vaccination uptake. Read this guidance for details on the role of the Imms lead, and other contractual requirements around vaccination in General Practice. 

Routine Childhood Immunisations

• The City & Hackney GP Childhood Immunisations Toolkit is available to download on this page and is a guide to best practice for childhood vaccination in General Practice, including guides for call/recall and tips for increasing uptake.
• The CEG APL-Imms tool is the only tool recommended for call/recall for childhood imms. Please switch to this tool if you are not using it for recall.
• Practice Support Visits - We can come to your practice to review your immunisation call/recall processes and offer support to help with improving uptake - email robert.moore9@nhs.net                                                                                          

School Immunisations

The C&H provider is Vaccination UK. Their contact details and info on catch-up clinics is available on their website.

GPs should provide school age vaccinations to any eligible children on request or opportunistically. It is important that eligible children are not turned away.

BCG Vaccination

The C&H provider is Vaccination UK (Contact: vul.nlbcgreferrals@nhs.net ). Eligible children under 1 year old can be referred via e-mail using the Resource Publisher referral form “RP BCG Vaccination Service (Vaccination UK)” available on the EMIS clinical system.

UKHSA page on BCG Vaccination Programme

Selective Neonatal Hep B Vaccination

The C&H provider is Vaccination UK. Contact: vul.neonatalhepb@nhs.net 

UKHSA page on Selective Neonatal Hep B Immunisation