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Childhood Immunisation Resources for Professionals

This page contains useful information for those working in Childhood Immunisations in North West London. 
On this page you'll find contact numbers, links to the Vaccine Update and helpful links to further resources.

Latest updates from the North West London Immunisations Team

In this section you'll find the latest news and messages from the Childhood Immunisations team. 

  • Measles update - 24 January
  • A national recall processes has been set-up, this will see letters going to children and their parents throughout February.
    Capacity has also been increased to support vacciantions across boroughs.

Key messages:

  • Just one person with measles can infect nine out of ten people who have not had the MMR vaccination.
  • Measles is more than just a rash, in some cases it can lead to meningitis and sepsis, causing real risk to life.
  • 1 in 5 cases of measles cases requires a hospital visit
  • Since the measles vaccine was introduced in the 1960s over 20 million cases have been avoided, saving over 4,500 lives.
  • Measles is completely preventable with the MMR vaccine. Two doses provide over 99% protection.

UKHSA resources on immunisation can be found here

Contacting the NHS North West London Immunisation Team

To contact the immunisations team, send an email to: 
nhsnwl.immunisations@nhs.net

Brent, Ealing, Hillingdon, Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster:

Child Immunisation Service :: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (cnwl.nhs.uk)

Harrow and Hounslow: https://clchschoolimmunisations.co.uk/

Training:
If you are a health professional working in immunisations and would like to be kept-up-to-date on immunisations and vaccination services in London, please contact ENGLAND.londonimms@nhs.net who have a number of resources on NHS Futures Platform that can be shared with you. You can also subscribe to the Vaccine Update newsletter here - https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/vaccine-update

Call and recall system:
Parent invite and reminder systems (call/recall) are the most effective way to improve uptake of childhood immunisations. NHS England have developed best practice guidance to help London based general practices. A Good Practice Immunisation Invite Reminder Poster is also available.

Vaccine clinical queries and incidents:
If you are an immunisation service provider and you would like to report a vaccine incident, please contact NHSE at england.londonscreening-incidents@nhs.net.
Link to UKHSA Vaccine Incident Reporting page Vaccine incident guidance: responding to vaccine errors - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Urgent on-call / TB issues contact NWL HPT on 0203 326 1658 (email: NWLHPT.oncall@ukhsa.gov.uk / phe.nwl@nhs.net) quoting a HPZ reference if you have one.

Clinical immunisation queries : london.immunisationqueriescars@nhs.net
Reporting of a vaccine incident : england.londonscreening-incidents@nhs.net
Suspected outbreaks of a Vaccine-Preventable Disease (VPD) : phe.nwl@nhs.net

Other queries
For all other queries, including payments, please contact NHSE at ENGLAND.londonimms@nhs.net

Vaccine Update

Get the latest edition of the UKHSA Vaccine Update 

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