Purpose
The attachment below outlines the medicines management responsibilities of Chief Pharmacists for Mass Vaccination in Trust sites, and provides supporting guidance and resources in relation to:
- Safe storage and distribution, including temperature controlled storage.
- Oversight of vaccine handling and preparation, including management of shelf life reduction processes following defrosting
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.
Attachments
Other handling content for Trusts
Other COVID-19 vaccines resources
- Information and guidance common across vaccines
- Information and guidance specific to COVID-19 Vaccine Pfizer-BioNTech
- Information and guidance specific to COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca
- Information and guidance specific to COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna
Change history
- Added information on recipe of thawed vaccine
- Content reviewed and accurate
- Added section referencing to movement of vaccine by mutual aid
- Added description of the new 0.25mL booster dose and reference to new documents to support preparation of the new dose. 0.5ml dose now referred to as 'primary course dose'
- Additional detail added on guidance for transport
- Added note regarding thawing of individual vials at room temperature and reference to removing 11 doses from each vial
- Correction to fridge storage temperature range in process flow 1
- Vaccine has full UK marketing authorisation from 01/04/2021. Link to SPC and PIL added.
- Published