Care Home workers and Domiciliary Care workers are now eligible for free NHS flu jab

NHS England South (Wessex) and PSNC have communicated important update details this week.

Tim Perriment, Primary Care Commissioning Support Manager at NHS England South (Wessex) circulated a communication, which is attached below, containing details of the updated Service Spec, PGD and PSNC produced guidance from the PSNC website.

PSNC have also produced some templates, which can be adapted to use in communicating to homes and care workers to encourage their teams to come in and get vaccinated. Click here for these resources

Please share this with your team.

It's important to emphasise that contractors can immediately start to vaccinate patients in this group as long as they have read, printed and signed the new PGD, which also requires a signature from an authorising manager. They should also be familiar with the updated Service Spec.

NHS England South (Wessex) letter: REF PH280