The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015

[F1Vaccines and immunisations: appointmentsE+W

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66B.—(1) A contractor must ensure that they have in place a system for delivering appointments at which relevant vaccines or immunisations are administered to patients (“immunisation appointments”) which meets the Vaccines and Immunisations Standards.

(2) In this regulation—

“relevant vaccine or immunisation” means a vaccine or immunisation which is of a type specified in the GMS Statement of Financial Entitlements other than—

(a)

an influenza vaccine,

(b)

a vaccine or immunisation for the purposes of travel which is not overseas travel, or

(c)

a vaccine or immunisation which is offered in response to a local outbreak;

“the Vaccines and Immunisations Standards” means the standards determined by [F2NHS England] and which a contractor is required to meet in relation to the following matters—

(a)

the invitation of patients for immunisation appointments when they first become eligible for relevant vaccines or immunisations (“newly eligible patients”);

(b)

the steps to be taken if no response is received to an invitation falling within sub-paragraph (a);

(c)

the provision of immunisation appointments to newly eligible patients;

(d)

the steps to be taken if a newly eligible patient does not attend an immunisation appointment;

(e)

requests for relevant vaccines or immunisations made by patients who are eligible for them but have not previously received them for any reason;

(f)

the identification of gaps in the vaccination records of registered patients, and the offer, and provision of, immunisation appointments to those patients.]

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