Purpose
The attachment below outlines the medicines management responsibilities of Chief Pharmacists for Mass Vaccination in Hub and Non-Hub Trust sites, and provides supporting guidance and resources in relation to:
- Safe storage and distribution, including temperature controlled storage, stock control and reporting vaccine usage to PHE
- Oversight of vaccine handling and preparation
The document aims to promote consistency of practice by providing flow diagrams outlining a stepwise approach to implementing Pharmacy processes to receive, store and issue vaccines, and to oversee vaccine handling processes by clinical staff.
More resources
We also host a range of other resources to enable safe handling of this vaccine in Trusts.
Attachments
Change history
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Amended link for to best practice for storing COVID-19 vaccines in the refrigerator
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Minor amendment to wording linking to V1 IT Policy and removal of 'agent to be confirmed' for antiviral disinfectant.
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Quantity of vials in each carton corrected. Page numbers amended.
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Included hyperlink to ‘Deployment of COVID-19 Vaccine Oxford/AstraZeneca: implications for governance, handling and preparation of vaccines’ letter
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Published