Vaccine update: issue 318 March 2021
Updated on Wednesday, 5 May 2021,
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Vaccine update: issue 318 March 2021
The March 2021 issue features:
- COVID-19 vaccination programme success continues
- JCVI issues interim advice on Phase 2 of COVID-19 vaccination programme rollout
- guidance for unpaid carers who are eligible for their COVID-19 vaccination
- delivering vaccines to homeless people
- COVID-19 programme resources and training
- supply and priority groups for pneumococcal polysaccharide 23-valent vaccine (PPV23)
- Easter and May bank holiday delivery schedule for COVID-19 vaccines
- vaccine supply for the routine vaccination programme
- Viper antivenom has changed
- change to dTaP/IPV vaccine for both the pre-school booster and maternal pertussis dTaP/IPV programmes
- update to Bexsero Patient Information Leaflet
- MMR vaccine ordering
- the EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) and Delegated Regulation as applicable to PHE supplied vaccines for the national immunisation programme
- vaccine supply for non-routine vaccination programme
