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
- Information and guidance specific to COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen